No one in the US is mandated to buy homeowner’s insurance. I own my home free and clear, and I can cancel or change the terms on my insurance any time that I want. Which reminds me, I want to raise the deductible, so I should remember to do that on Tuesday. It is not the government mandating the insurance, it is part of the agreement with banks to buy the insurance. The bank is free to make any condition, and the mortgage seeker is free to look for a better deal. This is part of liberty, the freedom to negotiate and enter into contracts or to not enter into contracts, as one chooses, just like the auto insurance.

As for legally being in this country (illegal aliens — or misdemeanant aliens, if you don’t like the former term — are exempt from the mandate, but they still receive care, like everyone else), if you breath then you are required to enter into a contract for health insurance coverage. Since breathing is necessary to life, you have to be insured under Obama’s tyrannical regime. Plus, the government mandates the coverage, no negotiation or deviation from the government standard contracts is possible. No freedom, under Obamacare.

I noticed, however, that you didn’t find any other tyranny that directed how its people were to spend their own hard-earned money.

Our government now has the audacity to do what no other tyranny in all of history has ever had: to direct how its people are to spend their own hard-earned money.”

Do you make these same complaints about auto insurance?
Do you make these same complaints about home insurance that bankers make you buy by law?

There’s that ‘hope & change’.

” . . .,and customers turned out to be sicker than expected.”

‘Expected’ by whom? Every bit of the disaster that is Obamacare was predicted right down the line by any number of people. To be surprised at how this monumental fiasco is shaking out is to admit that one is completely enfolded in The Narrative’s irrational bubble, and worthy of the attention one might give a credulous five-year-old.

-That article is just plain lying about a “historic low of 9%,” as it relates to the “uninsured.” And even if it was true, as you say, “at what cost?”
=Billions of dollars, gone forever, that we still have to pay for, because it was all borrowed money.
“Medicaid expansion,” is nothing but a ticking Debt-Bomb waiting to explode, and is designed to explode starting in 2017. Mitch/Ryan & whomever is elected in November, will never repeal the ACA. They simply refuse to touch any entitlement-spending, are more worried about what the “47%” thinks of them, and will never overturn an entitlement such as the ACA.
We are going to be living & dealing with what has gone down the past 8 years, for decades to come, no matter who is elected.

But, at what cost?

Not only is the government putting even more people on the dole by paying for their insurance, but work hours have changed, religious rights have been suspended, anyone who is not covered by insurance is a scofflaw, and we are now mandated to buy health insurance under penalty of law.

Our government now has the audacity to do what no other tyranny in all of history has ever had: to direct how its people are to spend their own hard-earned money.

Something to consider is the average subsidy is $3312. Obamacare cost $110 billion in 2016, or almost $10,000 per person.