Why doesn’t she stop paying for car insurance?
Not in the hospital, nor may you bring your own prescription drugs in. They want to be sure that while under their care you receive the very best, most expensive drugs. 
I’ve wondered if the ACA is a setup for that. Another party could gleefully repeal the hated “Obama Care” and be heroes introducing national health care.
Neither facial tissues nor aspirin require a prescription.
You may be able to bring your own tissues, I don’t know about aspirin. The point, however, is that hospitals charge much more for stuff than they should.
In many states, insurance is manadatory if you own a car.
ETA: And the Sec of State does require proof of insurance when you renew you car’s registration.
That’s the problem with subsidies. When money gets tight, subsidies are the first thing that gets the axe.
Isn’t health insurance now mandatory?
While you laugh about aspirin, taking aspirin could be very dangerous for me, since I’m on Warfarin. If you were in the hospital, and they put you on a blood thinner for some reason, popping your normal aspirin could be dangerous to you. And you’d no doubt sue the hospital.
I’m unaware of any bans at bringing in tissues however.
I’m gonna stop you right there. I’m going to DIE.
I would not tolerate having my rib-cage ripped open to “save my life” (for what, maybe a couple of extra years of constant pain and suffering?). Ain’t going down that road. I’ve got 2 close friends who get sliced and diced on a regular basis, and their lives are absolute SHIT.
No thanks. I’ll leave my money for my kid, have the common decency to die when its my time, on my terms, intact. BOOYAH!
Automobile insurance.
No. It increases your tax burden by a few hundred dollars if you don’t have any though. They’re not going to put you in jail or take your license away for failing to obtain health insurance like they will with car insurance.
So, if health insurance is not mandatory, why is your tax burden increased by a few hundred dollars if you don’t have it? Being fined for not having something seems like it is mandatory to me.
If auto insurance is mandatory, why are there millions of drivers without it?
Taxes are not fines. You pay taxes if you drive a car, does that mean driving is forbidden?
This makes no sense, and is in no way related to what I am asking.
You said, and I quote “So, if health insurance is not mandatory, why is your tax burden increased by a few hundred dollars if you don’t have it?” If driving isn’t forbidden, why is your tax burden increased when you drive? It’s the same issue. Taxing something doesn’t mean that thing is banned. We have taxes on liquor, cigarettes, real estate, literally everything you buy. Those things aren’t forbidden, nor is going without them mandatory.
Nitpick: you can put as much as you want in per year. The caveat is that only the first $3350 per year (in 2015) is deductible.
Still makes no sense. I said nothing about anything being banned or forbidden.
You said it was mandatory. Ergo, you are saying not having it is forbidden.
Once again, health insurance (heck insurance generally) is seen more frequently as a hedge rather than a gamble. Characterizing insurance as a gamble rather than a hedge kinda makes you seemed biased against the concept of insurance generally.
The way Obamacare subsidies work, I don’t see a lot of daylight between Obamacare and what you are describing as universal healthcare.