Quote Originally Posted by peggy View Post
Alan, Alan, Alan...sigh..If you own and use a car, you HAVE to have insurance. It's the law. It is, in fact, required. It's the first thing a cop will ask for if he/she stops you for ANYTHING. If you don't have insurance, you can't drive a car. Period.
Do you own a body? Do you use it? CAn it break down on the street/at work/at home/in the shower? Yes, yes, and yes. I suppose we could insist that people without health insurance should just stay in bed with the covers pulled up to their chins, but even there they could suffer a heart attack. By simply breathing they are 'driving' their bodies.Do you know what the average heart attack costs? We are in the hundreds of thousands range here pretty quickly.
Are your car repairs going to cost you 100's of thousands of dollars? No. Is your body repair going to cost you 100's of thousands of dollars. Very easily, unfortunately.

Let me ask you this? For all the deadbeats who don't want to buy insurance, or for those who want to continue with their junk insurance that doesn't really cover anything, who will pay? Who will pay that $200,000 for their heart attack? Who do you think should pick up that bill?
Who should pay for the poor kids ear infection? Or should he just stay home and suffer? I'm asking you because I really want to know who you think should pay?
Do you think we shouldn't have a car insurance requirement? Do you think mortgage companies shouldn't be allowed to require home insurance?

Or maybe we should have universal health care, cut out the insurance companies altogether, since your problem seems to be asking people to buy insurance.
Peggy I agree with what you have posted 100%. I'd also prefer universal health care myself as insurance companies make my skin crawl - just don't trust them, never have, never will, I'm a firm believer some things such as health care should not be done at a profit - but that's a topic for another thread. I do believe that even with my issues I've had with DES, that ObamaCare overall is a good thing for those who have gotten the short end of the stick for far too long - the working poor. Something else that is nice now is that I am not so unlimited as to where I can eat if I ever eat out as I made a pact a few years back not to eat at places that don't offer healthcare to their employees(with a few exceptions, such as when I am travelling). I also don't feel guilty shopping at places that don't offer health care as I know the cashiers are more than likely PT and on Medicaid. So one benefit of ObamaCare for me is reduction of guilt in shopping some places. Rob