Actually, I guess I gotta change my mind. If Don's right, and it's an insurance policy (with "premiums"?) and not a tax -- and everyone knows that -- I guess the very wealthy shouldn't be required to participate. They sure don't need the insurance. Why pay the premiums?

It's not a tax, and my notion that everyone should be participating equally as they would any other government program was kinda predicated on that concept.

Who says nobody ever changes their mind by reading the posts on the mudcat?