#3 Samford – Auto insurance is not the same as health insurance. If you want to drive, you have to pass a test; get a license. Because it’s DANGEROUS! You are required to have minimal insurance in case you hurt someone else, or damage someone else’s property. This is a protection of others’ rights to life and property. When your rights overlap others’ rights, the government sets the rules for interaction. Also, as long as you post a bond to cover these possiblities, you can get out of having to buy auto insurance.
This is not true of health insurance. If you are young and healthy, you don’t really need anything but catastrophic health insurance. Maybe not even that, depending on your wealth. You are not uninsured. You are self-insured. But they’ll fine you, anyway. They will seize your wealth, in order to force you to subsidize the system.
This is just another Ponzi scheme. Get the youth enrolled. Force them to buy a product they neither need or want, in order to get them to subsidize the purchases of older, less healthy people. Just like SS/Medicare. Then, it will rage out of control.
“Government, like fire, is a useful tool, and a terrible master.” – G. Washington
