Jail Time for Those without Health Care Insurance?

ABC News ^ | November 09, 2009 | Sunlen Miller

[Still Thinking]

Excuse me for pointing out the obvious but this is the very definition of Congress.

And more to the point, the very definition of THE PROGRAM HE WANTS TO JAIL PEOPLE FOR PASSING ON!

[Still Thinking]

You left homo sex off your list. It’s a lot more dangerous than some of the stuff you mentioned.

[jaybee]

I’m in Maryland (yea, I know....) It’s an orange credit card marked “Independence” for food stamp money.

You’d think that with modern technology, we could flag some obviously inappropriate foods for disqualification.

[GizmosAndGadgets]

Five years in jail for choosing dangerous recreation forms:
Scuba diving
rock climbing
motorcycle riding
contact sports
Surfing
Skiing
Snowboarding
wind sailing
sky diving
flying for "fun"
sailplaning
mountain climbing
rock climbing
Please feel free to add to this list.

How about:
ATVing
Car racing (drag, formula, Grand Prix, Kart, off-road, sprint, GT, rally...)
Hot Air Ballooning
Boxing
Rodeo
Skin diving
Base Jumping
Spelunking
Wrestling

These all came from a list of Avocations and Hazardous Sports I found linked from Life Insurance 101: Life Insurance for the Extreme Athlete

And, on a completely irrelevant topic, did you know men can reduce their chance of prostate cancer?

[GovernmentShrinker]

The reality is that we’ve got uninsured people with no money showing up for urgent medical care, and nobody has the guts to say NO. While I totally understand why you don’t turn away the innocent child who’s been hit by a drunk driver just because the child’s parents didn’t buy insurance, I don’t understand why nobody has the decency to tell the drunk driver (and family) NO. We could afford to cover those who really deserve our *charity*, if we’d stop covering the drunk drivers, drug addicts, face-stuffers, gang-bangers, etc.