Posted on 12/18/2010 8:03:56 PM PST by Nachum
Gordon Peterson on Friday asked either a staggeringly ignorant or intentionally provocative question.
On the most recent installment of PBS's "Inside Washington," the host queried his guests, "Why is it constitutional to require Americans to buy automobile insurance but un-Constitutional to force them to buy health insurance?" (video follows with transcript and commentary): ---
GORDON PETERSON, HOST: That’s Ken Cuccinelli. He’s the attorney general of Virginia. He brought the challenge to ObamaCare. The federal court and judge Henry Hudson of Virginia ruled it’s un-Constitutional to force Americans to buy health insurance, as the law mandates. Why is it constitutional to require Americans to buy automobile insurance but un-Constitutional to force them to buy health insurance?
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Because driving is a choice in itself.
because it is liability insurance for the liability that you assume in driving on public roads.
Unfathomable, unplumbed, bottomless, yawning chasm of ignorance. Car insurance is protection of others from your actions--what normal people call "liability". Health "insurance" has NOTHING to do with liability; it is a bunch of people paying into a collective money pool, hoping that not too many of them drain too much money out of it by being sick so their premiums don't go up.
If I’m some rich Hollywood jerkweed and I own a multi-square mile in ranch in Montana, have a car that I drive only on my ranch and never on a public road, do I need to buy car insurance for it?
They don’t. They only require care owners to have it. Duhhhhhhh
They don’t. They only require care owners to have it. Duhhhhhhh
Because you are insuring against liability when you buy car insurance. There is no liability if you get sick, your disease cant hurt me, well not if it is communicable. HIV insurance anyone?
This is a question that a fifth grader would ask. Everyone older than that would already know the answer to this question.
The federal government does not require anyone to buy car insurance. The mandate comes from the states.
The states have broad “police powers” to protect the health, safety, welfare and morals of their citizens. The feds do not enjoy the same powers—absent an issue such as interstate commerce.
I hope I got this right. I’m not a lawyer by a longshot.
The only way to opt out of Obamacare is via a hearse or election to Congress.
Because driving endangers others, and automobile insurance covers what I might do to them. I’m not required to buy insurance to protect myself.
Health insurance, on the other hand, is for my protection.
The government has no right to tell me that I can’t take risks with my own safety, but it can require that I not risk the safety of others.
1) The feds dont force you to do so.
2) You dont have a “right” to operate a motor vehicle on public roads.
If I buy car insurance, it assures me my car will be intact (or even replaced) if it is destroyed. Health insurance is really a bad name for a method of paying for health care treatment. Otherwise, no matter what happens to my body, I am assured wellness, health, and life. That’s one problem with Obamacare - he thinks doctors should warranty their work, so if you have to go back to the hospital, it will be “free” since the doctor obviously screwed up. It is an art not a science. You can’t trade in your body under “lemon law” legislation, although I guess they’ll try that next....
PETERSON! If your state mandates it, it is law.
The FED GOV cannot.
Stupid SH1t
You shouldn’t have to in that situation in my opinion.
And because it is the STATE that requires you to have insurance.
I don't believe that statement is true. Firstly, the Obama admin has given something in the neighborhood of 200 plus companies and unions the right to opt out. In addition, certain religious groups are exempt, such as the Amish. And in addition to those groups I believe reservation living Indians are also exempt as they're part of an autonomous "nation".
Not in some parts of the country.
People are not forced to buy car insurance.
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