The only winners of Massachusett’s mandatory health insurance program are the insurance companies. This completely absurd, unconstitutional law turns law abiding citizens into hoodlums- all because they exert their natural rights. The people of the Commonwealth should not be forced to get health insurance if they choose not to. The government has no place intervening with my decision to receive health care and insurance when it does not affect anyone else but myself. These are hard times, and people who could afford decent health insurance would. Many are being forced to buy into high premiums with little coverage for fear of the extensive fee attached for not having it or to be allowed to go to college on a 2/4 full time schedule. The state also mandates many useless benefits, such as vitro fertilization, which is not only useless to many but has raised the costs of insurance by 23-56%. This is legalized thievery which makes the insurance companies pockets deeper while strangling what little cash we have out of the common folk. If the government truly represents the people, and if the people truly govern the government, then this system should be abolished. Studies have shown that this plan neither lowered health care cost nor achieved universal coverage, but polls of Massachusetts citizens have also shown that a majority of Massachusetts citizens disagree with it. If the government isn’t willing to do anything about it, I think it’s time the people start doing something about it.