[BitWielder1]

Insurance is the stalking horse, Federal control and regulations and mandates on doctors and hospitals has to be eliminated and left entirely to each State.

Right. By making something MANDATORY by LAW, they have everyone over the barrel.
However, I'm not sure if the states should be in the insurance business either, besides setting basic rules.
Insurance should not be mandatory. If you can drive without insurance, why can't you live without insurance?
And IF medical insurance is to be mandatory, then it should be bare-bones minimum, to defray costs if you get sick.
Not to cover everything, like sex change operations and other non-essential things.

[txrangerette]

Are you saying there are states where you can legally drive without insurance?

Enlighten me as to which ones.

Texas certainly isn’t one of them.