I love the driving a car insurance mandate response.
I heard it at work from a co-worker that said since we have to have insurance to buy a car..why not for health insurance?
I gave him a quick newsflash “NOT EVERYONE DRIVES!! If you don’t want car insurance, mass transit works, walking, riding a bike. But you cannot escape Health insurance because everyone that lives would be required to get it”
I go on & explain it further to the Obama bot but it still doesn’t sink in.
Very few people had health insurance prior to the 1950’s and yet somehow the work did not stop spinning, people not only got by with respect to the medical technology of the time they thrived.
Health Insurance is the idea that a 3rd party can take responsibility for your health insurance costs without having any real control over your health choices that necessarily lead to them costs.
That is to say everything from the risks you take to the way you take care of yourself. In every respect there is almost always something someone can do to avoid incurring a health issue.
It is the very idea of Health insurance which is either at war with the idea of cost control(by removing price selection) or is repressive to individuals.
Repressive for refusing to pay for health services for either unknown or disagreeable(to the individual) reasons.
All the while it was the Government that pushed and prodded us into precisely this situation, and acted as if there was no other way to go. Even Republicans act as if there is no other way to go but greater and greater % of the population that are “insured”, and thus not directly responsible for the cost of their health choices.