People will boycott health ins. mandates

The new health care rules are a good deal for those who need it ["Break gridlock in Congress," Editorial, March 31]. For the rest, it's a bad deal. In a couple of years, insurance will become mandatory for all, enforced by threat of fine. I have tried to imagine what will happen.

One likely prospect is that a firestorm of rage will spread through Internet social networks. Suppose millions, or tens of millions, of healthy young Americans resist. Perhaps only the wimps (or as my father would have said, the sheep) will agree to donate thousands of dollars each year to ease the burdens of the chronically ill and usher the elderly into their graves. It will not be that difficult to ignore a law that cries out for an amendment to the Constitution to validate. It will become a matter of pride to take a stand in this new variety of class warfare.

No administration will prosecute millions, and the law will be quickly repealed. Eventually we will adopt the public option, accept a modest tax increase and then watch the rapacious health maintenance organizations collapse into the dustbin of history.

Arthur Bradley

Floral Park