When it comes to health care, the government "has the right duty to interfere with such a personal, private decision" (in the form of a mandate to purchase health insurance).
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over.
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Except when one gets sick and gets unsubsidized health care at the taxpayer's or hospital's expense. Everyone is supposed to have car insurance too but not everyone does. However they do so at their own risk. While this is hardly a kosher plan if we are not going to single payer like the rest of the world then this is the most viable option. What insurance company could stay profitable if they were only insuring those who were or most likely to become sick. I am not the president or congress but I would exempt people from the penalty who would either pay cash or just not ever get treatment if they got sick. If we as a society are ok with those with genetic or financial situations dying or suffering then we should stop holding ourselves up as a Christian nation because no one else is standing up to help.
Give me a good reason that we should not all have health insurance (assuming we stay with an insurance based system).
Also anyone responding please do not assume by this comment that I love this plan, Obama, or that I am a Democrat as none of these are true and only distract from the core issue.
My point was that many of the same people who consider themselves pro-choice when it comes to abortion do not think you should have the choice when it comes to purchasing health insurance. In the former case, gov't involvement is seen to be interference; in the latter, it is seen to be beneficial. In both cases, the issue is what could be called a "private medical issue."
Here is a good reason: If I, being free to make the choice, decide to not have it. But that is the catch isn’t it? If I decide, even though I can afford it, to not have it and choose instead to buy a motorcycle, when I fall and rub all the skin off my skull, wa-la, I suddenly have it. What emergency room is going to hold me to the consequences of my decision and let me die on their doorstep?
This is in large part, as far as I can see anyhow, the crux of the matter. Just like in many other facets of life, America no longer has the stomach to allow people to live out the consequences of their decisions. The only problem is that a free society cannot flout its responsibilities. There is simply not enough money in the world to pay for man’s ability to be destructive to him/herself, his/her family, and his/her society. If you are young enough, and I assume you are, and live long enough, you will watch and experience this truth play itself out regardless of what laws pass and what entitlements are enacted.
You said in your closing: “please do not assume by this comment that I love this plan, Obama, or that I am a Democrat”. I would ask the same in return. Please don’t assume that I do not care about those who cannot afford healthcare and who have been abused by our current system.
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