Reply #7: "but spread to each and every one of us"

[Oregone]

But the only way to make it "affordable" for everyone is to have such burden spread such that the personal contribution is proportional to one's income (and no, shell games with subsidies do not really accomplish this). If someone makes $100 million a year in income, their contribution should be *at least* 1000 times higher than if someone makes $100 K a year, if not even higher with a marginal rate that steps up.

Forcing people into an unfair system that puts a larger burden on the lower classes isn't going to promote the overall welfare of the country as effectively, and may even suppress it depending on just how unfair the system is that people are being forced into. That is the problem with forcing people to purchase products privately that have a maximum ceiling in cost; the other funds for subsidies will not be raised in such a way that is proportional to the wealth people are accumulating.