A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site...

A woman looks at the HealthCare.gov insurance exchange internet site in Washington, DC. (Oct. 1, 2013) Credit: Getty Images

Insurance is a business based upon a voluntary shared risk ["Presidents and leveling with people," Letters, Nov. 20]. Mandatory participation is neither a business nor insurance. It is socialism.

Richard Rocchio, Stony Brook
 

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