What made health insurance so expensive is that it has ceased to be insurance at all. Its a means to make Peter subsidize Paul’s health care, especially in regard to coverage that Peter doesn’t want or need. In some states, for example, you cannot buy health insurance that only covers catastrophic events, and of course, you can’t buy health insurance across state lines.
And the whole idea of mandatory health insurance is a joke. The same people who get “free” health care because they are poor are still going to be getting “free” health care once and if the individual mandate comes into effect.
#3. Rick H posits a polling question that “[if] Someone has been severely injured and they don’t have health insurance. Should the government be responsible for their medical bill?” I wonder what the response would be if the question was “if someone has been severely injured and they don’t have health insurance. Should YOU be responsible for THEIR medical bill?” I suspect that the response would not be the same.
