Actually, I think this idea has some merit. Before you flame me - hear me out. If I go to a hospital emergency room, they are required by law to treat me for a life threatening condition. If they are required to treat, it is it to much to ask that people be responsible? I don’t think I would favor this proposal - I am just pointing out that requiring people to have insurance or pay a penalty is not without merit.-—JM
It IS without merit.
The government is running it.
They botch and ruin and bankrupt everything.
They take over power until the private sector and individuals are nothing but annexes of the government.
Let these people buy catastrophic insurance or have a health savings account or deal directly with the hospital’s billing dept.
But NO, the government is not going to allow any of those things.
Not to mention, it would be enforced by the IRS taking your money and even then, if you didn’t eventually buy, you could be fined thousands of dollars and PUT IN JAIL.
They tell us health care is a ‘right.’ But they want to force us to pay for a right?
I don’t tbink mandatory insurance is the way to address that problem.
I’d suggest passing laws giving hospitals greater ability to collect from uninsured, emergency room freeloaders. Reasonable payment plan standards should be established and when payments are not made, the hospital should be able to quickly and easily garnish wages and seize assets (including hosues, cars and personal property) of uninsured deadbeats. Also, emergency room bills of the uninsured should survive bankruptcy.
If people knew they would face losing everything, they would get insurance.