Tyranny is a strong word and I stated that somewhere earlier. I think the bottom line is Obamacare is not constitutional and that is not stupid.
Wrt to healthcare, tyranny isn't just strong, it's downright idiotic. Germany, Canada, Great Britain... and other developed nations are under the yoke of tyranny b/c of their national health systems? Give me a break.
And America has become a nation where "feelings" now take precedence over reasoned and informed decision making. It doesn't matter if you don't know your highschool civics anymore, just that you have sincere feelings. Again, give me a break.
Who knows if OC (ObamaCare) is constitutional? I think it is, using the ICC. But I don't get to decide that. As an aside, I was very much not impressed with the whole broccoli argument that some members of the court made.
I think the answer is to go to a national single-payor system which effectively makes the entire population the risk pool.
Also, the "individual mandate" was offered by a conservative think-tank as an option. They called it the "no free-rider" clause. Funny, isn't it. What was termed before as not letting freeloaders get a benefit (which would seem to be rather high on the GOP agenda) is now "tyranny".