No you are not. You are forced to pay your taxes. And you CHOOSE not to take the deduction offered you if you do not carry 3rd party insurance.

No, you miss my point entirely. If the public "option" is enacted, my taxes will contribute to subsidizing this program whether I participate or not. If I want to purchase my own insurance, I both have to buy mine and pay for part of yours.

Now again, before your head starts spinning around about how this is perfectly constitutional, yes, I quite agree. I'm saying it is bad policy and fundamentally unjust.