Originally Posted by
KG's Supra24
* on principle, I object to the government forcing me to do anything. Now (soon) whether I want to or not, I HAVE to buy health insurance (or pay the "tax" as specified by the Supremes). What can't the Congress force me to do, with this precedent in place? Katy bar the door, as they say.
I understand where you are coming from. Sadly, we cannot depend on individuals to take finances into their own hands. Health insurance is financing for medical emergencies. When people don’t have insurance, others end up footing the bill, through the government. If you don’t have insurance you are costing the government and taxpayers money. What is the rationale for not buying health insurance?
My rationale? Freedom! Sadly, that is a notion mostly lost now.
"Health insurance is financing for medical emergencies". YES. That is what its name implies. But it has morphed into something much larger and sinister. We expect our routine checkups to be covered. Our visit to the doctor when we have the sniffles to be covered. I could go on. This isn't insurance, it's handing over control to someone else so that they can tell me which doctor to go to, how often I can go, and what treatment I can have.
Our current health care mess is a great example of how big government creates problems, and then creates more to fix them. The very reason that we can't depend on individuals to take finances into their own hands, is that their bad choices are effectively subsidized. People know that they won't end up on the street eating garbage out of the dumpster; the worst it can get is that they sit at home collecting a government check. If the consequences of doing stupid things with money were more dire, perhaps there would not be as much stupidity.