After all, the sort of people who believe in punitive healthcare would never, ever, ever, keep extending this outward to more objectionable individuals with objectionable ideas. Additionally, when the other side gains power, it would never, ever, ever engage in payback.
In other words, highly intelligent people dream up schemes like this one. Highly intelligent people who have fingers on the pulse of the country and stand apart from cocoons.
I might add that measures like this absolutely, positively reek of democratic values and the compassion for which its proponents are well-known.