Funk Babblings

OK, I'm all for universal health care, but can someone please explain to me the rationale for mandatory purchasing of health insurance, with noncompliance punished by tax penalties?

Or is the AP just spinning this negatively?

Update: The debate on this over at Daily Kos is interesting, once you get past the cheerleading. "Mandatory private health insurance" indeed.

I'm coming into this late, but it seems that Chevrolet is running a contest inviting people to create their own Chevy Tahoe SUV commercials, using provided visual and audio elements, but your own text.

So of course people took it as an opportunity for some social commentary. My favorite of those I've seen so far hasn't been deleted yet, but it's also available at YouTube along with some others.

Supposedly Nightline is doing a story on this tonight (er, probably as I type). I found out about the whole thing at this Daily Kos thread, which has links to many of the ads, as well as a link to a NY Times article on the subject.

Update: And NPR, and more ads linked from an earlier dKos thread.