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Originally Posted by drcampbell
I'm a little surprised anybody could find this proposal "unbelievable". Most states have mandatory car insurance, enforced with fines. All that's currently being proposed is to extend that decades-old precedent to include medical insurance.
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That's a pretty poor analogy.
There is not a single state that requires you to purchase auto insurance.
If you don't want/need to drive, you are free to not purchase insurance. If you do choose to drive, you are often required to have LIABILITY insurance because your car is capable of doing great harm to life and property of others. You are free to not pay for coverage to pay for damages to your own life or car.
A free society protects citizens from doing harm to each other but should allow citizens to make their own decisions on their own personal risks.
And again, this $1,000 FINE is not a premium/payment for insurance, it is simply a penalty for not purchasing something that you may or may not want. Your are deprived of the freedom to make a choice on this personal decision that should affect nobody but yourself.
We're taking yet another whack at the tree of liberty.
It
is unbelievable.
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...a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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