There WILL be a federal sales tax or VAT tax, you can bet you behind on that. And forcing people to have insurance or fining us if we don't is just another way of getting premiums to pay for people that are a losing proposition to the hospitals and insurance companies. For example, my father had 3 bouts with non-hodgkins lymphoma. The last time his treatment entailed a bone marrow transplant at Stanford, one of if not the best cancer treatment centers in the world. His private insurance cost close to $1200.00/month at the time. The insurance paid stanford close to $750k to treat him and keep him alive and he's doing fine 6 years later. New plan...he'd be dead.
