Comments on: Health Insurance is Not Like Auto Insurance http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/09/17/health-insurance-is-not-like-auto-insurance/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Hommer http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/09/17/health-insurance-is-not-like-auto-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-134772 Hommer Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:53:31 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=27459#comment-134772 From the above article “You can avoid the auto insurance mandate by divesting yourself of a car. The only way to avoid a health insurance mandate is by divesting yourself of a body,” said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute. Auto insurance mandates were enacted not to protect the owner of the car but those who share the road and should not be required to pay for the owners actions. If you are able to afford health insurance and choose not to, why should the hospitals pick up the bill for your medical problems. If you are right to life do you feel comfortable watching people die because they were foolish enough not to buy health insurance if it is made affordable and will not dump you as soon as it becomes apparent you really need it. From the above article
“You can avoid the auto insurance mandate by divesting yourself of a car. The only way to avoid a health insurance mandate is by divesting yourself of a body,” said Michael Cannon, director of health policy studies at the Cato Institute.
Auto insurance mandates were enacted not to protect the owner of the car but those who share the road and should not be required to pay for the owners actions. If you are able to afford health insurance and choose not to, why should the hospitals pick up the bill for your medical problems. If you are right to life do you feel comfortable watching people die because they were foolish enough not to buy health insurance if it is made affordable and will not dump you as soon as it becomes apparent you really need it.

]]> By: kerwin http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/09/17/health-insurance-is-not-like-auto-insurance/comment-page-1/#comment-126072 kerwin Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:28:22 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=27459#comment-126072 Health care effects other people since I have to pick up the bill for those individuals who do not pay there own way. On the other hand it is the states and not the federal government that mandate auto insurance. That keeps intact the spirit off the U.S. Constitution desire that we have a federal government system with the states taking care of their own citizens while the federal government handled relations between a state and another state, Indian tribe, or foreign country. Health care effects other people since I have to pick up the bill for those individuals who do not pay there own way.

On the other hand it is the states and not the federal government that mandate auto insurance. That keeps intact the spirit off the U.S. Constitution desire that we have a federal government system with the states taking care of their own citizens while the federal government handled relations between a state and another state, Indian tribe, or foreign country.

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