I don't like mandates to buy insurance. I think they are unconstitutional under 10th amendment. I would like to see that argument settled in the courts.

That said under a purely wonkish view, I would have just preferred opening up Medicare +10% cost to everyone.

"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming

Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.