Get health care or we'll kill you

Here in the utopia of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we've made it a law that everybody must have health insurance. But as Jay Tea points out, the magic pixies can't compel people to sign up for the program:

Jarrett Barrios, president of the Blue Cross Foundation, says the outreach effort needs to "move into the trenches" to address more directly the reasons that make people choose not to apply.

"That choice jeopardizes not only their own health, but may jeopardize the entire project of health reform," he said.

Get that? If health care reform fails, it's the fault of the people who refuse to sign up for the program, who will then be fined for not having health insurance. But they can't afford the fines either, so...well, you see where this is going.