I have health insurance, but I see the disastrous effects on young people. They have to buy it or forfiet their income tax return (if they get a refund) or pay a fine that increases every year. These policies that are touted as affordable, still run about 250. a month, and have a deductible of 2000.-2500. So these young people never actually use the insurance, they just have to pay the premiums. If a person is healthy, they cannot reach that deductible in order to use the insurance. To them, this is a tax, and it only goes to pay for illegals and those who get state pd. benefits.
Romney's health care plan is big Gov't plain and simple.
Every single person, young or old, is just one slip away from an expensive hospital bill, and one bug away from a long-term illness. Cancer attacks everybody, there’s bacterial infections everywhere.
Plans can be found that are priced relative to the risks associated with young people. I think any real fix for health care is going to have to make such pricing MORE flexible, rather than less, even though that will drive up the cost for older people.
If I were to push my own mandate for insurance, and I’m not sure I would choose that myself, I would mandate only catastrophic care insurance, and let people deal with the 5-10thousand dollar problems by having a state-run (if necessary) loan board to borrow from if you get sick and can’t afford the care up to your catastrophic limit.