More newspeak. How is exercising your free choice to not buy something an example of living off the “dole?” Again, a lot of people don’t purchase health insurance for perfectly valid reasons. Many of them, in effect, self-insurance...though, of course, friends of paternalism like Mitt never believe that free individuals can make the “right” choices.
Let me tell you how it is living off the dole.
You have not hundreds, and not thousands, and not even hundred thousands--more like millions of people who go to the hospital and just 'show up' with every manner of illness pretended or real.
If the hospital doesn't treat them the hospital gets sued or other things along those lines.
So the hospitals treat the patients that are there and those people run up massive bills. Collectively it is a huge and substantial bill they run up.
Then, they give the finger to the hospital and don't pay. Not a nickel.
In some places for every 3 to 4 people going to the hospital something like one does not have insurance. The other three then have to pay for the one.
What happens though is the government steps in and pays for it. They subsidize the whole lot. With MY tax money.
AND to make it worse, in one of the debates, if you were watching Mitt said something like (I forgot the statistic) 25% of the defaults in his state were from people earning more than $100K per year.
We are talking billions of dollars in subsidies to hospitals because of this very thing alone.
That is how it is living off the dole.