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.
Gratuitous assertion gratuitously debunked. I had a bad motorcycle accident right after I graduated college - no insurance - broken wrist and two ribs. I paid out of pocket. I had to put a big chunk of it on credit card because at the time I wasn't as, let's say, comfortable financially as I am now, but I paid it off.
You’re no different than any other freeloader in that respect.
No, you're a coward who fears the free market. If weighing the risks and making cost/benefit decisions for ones self is what you call rationalization, then you have business calling yourself a Conservative. You're nothing but a frightened old man who resents the fact that other people are young and healthy and can do without. God I pity you.