You are crazy. Insurance is socialism. Mandatory insurance is mandatory socialism.
Insurance is where everyone pays into a pool and benefits are paid out according to "need". It is the very embodiment of Karl Marx.
Notice the authors of this insanity MADE NO MENTION OF TORT REFORM.
So, should we just refuse all emergency treatment to people that can't afford it? Should we refuse to treat uninsured people in car accidents? Who are having an acute MI? Uninsured kids with leukemia? Uninsured on dialysis?
People without insurance are leeches on all of us. If we require them to a cheap indemnity plan (with a $5,000/year deductible), then it will save ALL of us money.
Insurance is where everyone pays into a pool and benefits are paid out according to "need". It is the very embodiment of Karl Marx.
Easy now. Insurance may be socialism, but it is private property, voluntary, socialism. It is a free society answer to a communal need without the heavy hand of government. Marx should have been so smart.
The problem with health insurance is that health care is now considered a necessity, like electricity, water, roads, sewers, etc. The problem is how to pay for them without someone gaming the system privately for huge profits, doctors, insurance companies, lawyers, or lowering the quality by too much government interference.
Well, suffice it to say, the law suit mongers probably have these two scoundrels on the take ...