>Is forcing people to buy health insurance, with the assistance of
>significant subsidies, worse than the status quo?
Even with subsidies, and you haven't defined significant, if you're forced to buy insurance that is not good and if you might otherwise be spending less out of pocket then, yes, it could be worse.
>Only if you buy into the libertarian notion that Americans should be
>free to choose or not choose to buy and sell products and services
>as they see fit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies