Health insurance: can gov force you to sign a contract?

[lintun]

Insurance is a maritime contract and subjects you to the Admiralty Jurisdiction where rights are irrelevant. I don't think government has the (defined and limited) power to compel anyone into a maritime contract.

Anyone knowing more than I, please set me straight.

[[don't give me this drivers license stuff. It's a long story but the definition of "drive" is using the roads in an extraordinary way. You have a right to use the "ordinary conveyances of the day" on your public right-of-way without obtaining permission or 'license'. Using the roads for commercial use or big trucks is a privilege, traveling is a right under the Liberty clause. So most people don't need a license, unless they are driving the bank's car, selling ice cream, etc. So you volunteered into a regulated enterprise when you asked for the license and have to follow its rules which includes buying insurance.]]

[toryn34]

Maritime law / Admiralty Laws
Are a distinct body of laws (substantive / procedural) governing Navigation / Shipping regulations, associated topics are:
Wharfs, piers, Liens, canals, docks and insurance.
As i said associated topics not Germaine to be but associated as could be.
Maritime laws deal with the vessel you are under -- flag and then the jurisdiction you land under with that flag as what dictates boundaries of limitations on rulings.

[teyo]

I find myself wondering: "Who will profit the most from national health insurance?" Since everything we Americans are compelled to become involved in results in the transfer of tax dollars to someone or something else and those tax dollars eventually stopping in the banking account of someone--and in all probability someone involved in the free enterprise system. And, justly or not, that someone will find a way to pillage us for more of our money if we like it or not. This resembles the Social Security Insurance that is deducted from our payroll checks--more work for accountants and payroll clerks.