>I am not particularly against this proposal
LOL! Yeah, you and Karl Marx. - force the peasants into collectives. LOL!
Would you say that Workers Compensation is a commie idea? Employers are required to purchase workers compensation insurance, so why can't they be required to either pay a portion of health insurance or pay the state for medical insurance? The alternative is that the burden of all these uninsured people falls solely on the state and hence the taxpayer.
Right now my taxes are paying for all these uninsured patients that are crowding out and forcing shut all the emergency rooms. Federal law mandates that emergency rooms must treat everyone that comes in, so why should that burden fall solely on the taxpayers and hospitals? As long as medical care is mandated by the federal government, I think it is bad stewardship not to see that the burden imposed by that law is not spread out to businesses, individuals, insurance companies and the state.