I can see why people who struggle to make money are upset about the new healthcare law and its mandatory requirement and just maybe; should the be allowed to "opt-out" on the condition that they receive no emergency healthcare under any circumstance? The only right they would have is to die on the street at an accident scene or walk into the ER of any hospital with severe crisis and have the door slammed in their face?

I can see why employers are upset for reason that they can not now hold the non-availability of health insurance over their employees heads to stop attrition or prevent new competition by inspiring entrepreneurs as they can get their own health insurance within these new pools (healthcare exchanges).

If you have some pre-existing condition or chronic illness this law is very important to your survival and well-being.

If you really are low income there are new Medicaid requirements and subsidies to help the working poor obtain access or to buy into the healthcare system. However, many of us taxpayers will bear the costs of these new entitlements or subsidies. Well, I guess we will have to curtail some other non-domestic or non-essential spending to pay for healthcare.

I think when we discover we are just feeding a overpriced and often corrupt healthcare system there will be a change in the USA toward public single payer (universal) healthcare.

Right now about 20% of the US population and uninsured and have only very limited access to essential health services -- like it or not we all have to pay, be entitled by our poverty or our compliance subsidized by those able. Social responsibility sucks ...