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To: Choose Ye This Day

Two completely different things. Really weak attempt.


86 posted on 03/13/2007 10:34:21 PM PDT by NapkinUser (Free Ramos and Compean! Disbarment for the Nifong-wannabe Johnny Sutton.)
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To: NapkinUser
Not really. First of all, YOU'RE the one who said:

can you justify the government telling you that you must own something, or buy something?

And yes, the government does that from time to time. You may not like it, but they do. You may not like that the state tells you you have to have liability, but you have to. Why? Because if you cause a wreck and injure the other guy or damage his property, he has suffered a loss.

But if you get sick and have to go to the hospital for treatment, if you have no insurance, you're just hurting yourself, right? No one else suffers a loss...except the hospital who will most likely treat you anyway, and the doctor whose time and skills you use. Don't they also suffer a financial loss if they have to treat you, and you're not self insured (rich) and you have no private insurance?

They're not that far off. There was a time in America when people said, "The government can't force me to buy car insurance if I don't want it!" Nowadays, no one bats an eye.

100 posted on 03/13/2007 10:42:03 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (Some FReepers are physically & mentally incapable of obeying Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment.)
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