Some of you guys don't seem familiar with what is actually in either the House or the Senate bills (or the current Reid amendment to the Senate bill)
There are plenty of real summaries of actual content (not op-ed panic attacks) available today.
These explain how people who don't have health insurance now will be able to afford it, and how that will come about under the Senate bill (which has yet to be reconciled with the House bill, don't forget that).
The point is to give 31 million people, who do not have health insurance now - and whom we currently pay for as they tend to use mainly the ER, don't get healthcare until they are really sick, etc - affordable health insurance, by lowering the cost to where they can afford it.
Not to fine them because they are low income and can't afford health insurance
Unfortunately the loss of a public option leaves about 10 million still uninsured, but I'm sure that will be fixed in the future, after this initial health care reform passes.
Here is the Senate bill:
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111...FRrJsgodAGJOKA