Not even close. Driving was never considered a right, and the insurance is mandated not for your own protection, but for the protection of the people you might harm.
No comparison at all to simply living your life and minding your own business. Don't push things down the slippery slope any faster than they're going.
You could say this is for the protection of people one might harm -- hospitals and those paying insurance premiums.
Dear inquest,
"Not even close. Driving was never considered a right, and the insurance is mandated not for your own protection, but for the protection of the people you might harm."
Well, the harm comes when otherwise healthy, uninsured people become injured or unexpectedly ill, and cannot afford the health resources they then require. Then the rest of us are harmed by having to pay for what the uninsured individual cannot.
If the uninsured were willing to sign irrevocable statements assuring that they will not request medical treatment that they cannot pay for in advance of treatment, even under pain of lingering, exruciating, painful death, then you'd be right, there would be no harm to us.
But I've known a few uninsured folks who got into a bit of health trouble, and I didn't notice any of them turn down the health care given to them, and ultimately paid for by slobs like myself.
sitetest
So how then should we handle the problem of people who can't afford their hospital bills? Refuse emergency/life saving treatment? That seems to be the only other fair option.