Individual Mandate. Both the House and Senate bills would require all people to buy health insurance. Each  individual and family whose health insurance does not meet the new federally determined standards will receive a fine even if there is no money to buy insurance. This means that Congress will, for the first time, force Americans to buy federally designed packages of health benefits, even if they do not want or need those benefits.

--"I still can't afford health insurance. So now I don't have health insurance AND I have to pay a penalty come tax time" said the Massachusetts resident where buying health insurance is mandatory.

It also means that health benefits will tend to become increasingly costly as powerful special interest groups and representatives of the health industry lobby intensively to expand the legally mandated health insurance, medical treatments and procedures, and drugs that all Americans must buy under penalty of law.

Have the liberals decided that choice is not a right?       What about a woman's right to choose?