In reality the individual mandate is just an indirect form of taxation. It's not some huge expansion of government power.
Besides, as things stand right now those of us who aren't deadbeats are already being compelled to pay for other people's healthcare.
Horse manure. If it was taxation in exchange for government provision I'd be fine with it. It's nothing even slightly related.
Taxation is imposed on all people (or all within a certain set in the case of things like property taxes) as a rate on some exchange/value and then sometimes offers exemptions for various qualifications. In return, all citizens receive generally equal/equitable right to a good or service within certain restrictions. It also mandates the good/service provision abide all the usual public practices (accountability, right to redress, various title protections, etc).
The ACA is a set dollar fine imposed only on some people for failing to participate in private insurance. While some people are able to obtain government options which take the place of private insurance, it is NOT an exemption as in taxation. Moreover, what we receive in return is nothing more than whatever a private 3rd entity dictates, and it is under no requirement of general equality, equitability, etc. In other words, the only thing that's happening is the government REQUIRING citizens to be at the mercy of corporatism. Nothing is gained, but what they choose to give, in the way they choose to give it, and we have next to no recourse in the matter. It is 100% PURE economic fascism/corporatism.
Look, I'm all for health care reform. Lets have tort reform, lets ban all insurance, lets go pure single payer, lets go total socialized, lets nationalize the industry...hell, ANY of those things I could accept before the filth that was the ACA. It's EVERYTHING bad, and NOTHING good.