>>stating something is a right, and then penalizing someone for choosing not to opt out of the "right" as defined by the government.
Rights usually come with responsibilities. In this case, Mitt expressed it best when he said that people who could pay but choose not to, should not be allowed to freeload.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
