I can’t add any more — you are spot on. It sunrises me the article missed your fundamental point.
We should also look at how many of the taxes and fees associated with insuring and driving a car go to funding public transportation. (Not to mention raided to pay for totally unrelated crap)
You said what I was going to say.
“No one will die because they cannot drive without auto insurance.”
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I believe I could make at least as good an argument that they might as the liberals offer for their claims of people dying because they don’t have health insurance.
You want to consider carefully what you're saying there, FRiend.
First off, consider your assertion about the "right to LIFE." And remember what the Founders said in the Declaration: "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
One might plausibly argue that because life is a right, and government's duty is to secure such rights, it is the government's job to assure proper medical care to those who cannot afford it for themselves. So although Obamacare is a very clear and egregious case of government over-reach, the logic of your comment could be used to actually support a general argument that health insurance or health care is, at some level, a government concern.
The question of rationing is wonderfully scary, but it's not nearly so clear-cut as you might want it to be. Health care is rationed right now, by private insurance companies. Neither government nor private insurance is required to go to the last extremity for every patient: both entities simply have to draw the line somewhere -- and they do so by very similar calculations.
You should also be careful not to go overboard with your objections to government health care. For example, you make the assertion that "untold numbers" will die because of socialized medicine. That should be a claim that you can verify, based on other socialized medicine schemes in other countries -- let's take Germany and Sweden, just to name a couple. But the facts there don't bear out such worst-case claims. Yes, there are those on the margins who might die there, that might not die here. But it's a plain fact that "untold numbers" (i.e., lots of) people aren't dropping like flies from treatable maladies in places like Germany or Sweden.
I'm just as opposed to Obamacare as you are ... but to effectively oppose it, we need to come up with serious arguments that apply to the real situation.