Why should someone who is young and in perfect health buy insurance?
People who are young and healthful get into car accidents and develop cancer and so forth. Young people can frequently get cheaper insurance than older people because their health problems are rarer.
Do what you want Mr. Sovereign Citizen, but if you end up with massive internal bleeding because your car blew a tire and you hit a tree, please just die and don't go to a hospital where I'll have to pay your bill.
I have to ask: when did failure to take responsibility for yourself become a conservative value?
Exactly. See how easy freedom is?
I have to ask: when did failure to take responsibility for yourself become a conservative value?
To correctly weigh the risks and cost to benefit ratios of maintaining perfect health vs paying for a service you are not likely to need IS a Conservative value.
Individual sovereignty - look it up.
I suggest you worry about your own body, gramps, and stop asking young people to pay for your upkeep via a larger pool of suckers. The fact that you think it's okay for the government to allow insurance companies to steal the fruit of my labors simply for the crime of having been born proves only that you and Conservatism are strangers.
Maybe you can show me the clause in the Constitution that allows the federal government to compel a U.S. citizen to engage in involuntary commerce.