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.
Show me where I said I thought it was okay to mandate insurance coverage. I just said that whether or not there is a mandate insurance coverage is a good idea.
You are just another person who has rationalized his irresponsibility by calling it freedom. No doubt, if you found yourself needing medical care you couldn’t pay for, you would find some suitable rationalization for accepting care on someone else’s dime. Note that you never hear about people refusing medical care they can’t afford. You’re no different than any other freeloader in that respect.