That's still better than punishing people for not shelling out to private health insurance companies. If the goal is to give everybody access, we need single payer, the current state of affairs is corrupt to the core.

I don’t follow your logic. You want universal healthcare via a single payer solution (a political fantasy in the US for the foreseeable future) but until then you would prefer that millions more go without basic healthcare and that those who do buy it pay more for it?