The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don't provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers' wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.
[Emphasis mine.]
An offer with a penalty is not an offer. It is a mandate and a tax increase.
No one has a right to health care anymore than they have a right to food or clothing. They have to pay for it.
Imagine if the government decided that all rights were obligatory, as they are designing the socialized medicine plan. That would mean that anyone who didn't buy a reasonably-priced gun would pay a penalty or anyone who didn't carry a gun would be fined.
Inherent in the definition of rights is the choice not to exercise it. You have a right to speak truth and petition your government, but no obligation to do so. No one in their right mind would apply a penalty if you didn't write your representatives X number of times per month.
This isn't a right at all and framing it that way is pure propaganda.
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