Agreed on state’s right versus federal mandate. Which is why the health insurance mandate in Massachusetts is constitutional.
But please tell me how do you propose to deal with people showing up at hospitals with serious car accident injuries or a serious disease requiring surgery and expensive treatment, without insurance. Should other people be forced to pay for it in the form of higher premiums? Or should the tax payers carry the burden. Someone has to fork out the money if the person can not pay hospital bills.
They don’t go on the road to begin with, or face the risk. Risk responsibility. Insurance only passes it off, and is raked off at the top. Mandatory 6 months community service cleaning sidewalks and restrooms to start, and just a start of repayment.
Why eis it other people’s responsibility to pay other people’s bills? Why is healthcare the bill we all have to pay? The people need food and housing and transportation and there are no demands we have to all buy food insurance and housing insurance to pay for the food and housing for these people.
Further many of these people decided not to buy insurance - young and immortal, etc. Didn’t want to spend the money while they were healthy, wanted to use it on other things. If a person doesn’t maintain his car and decides to use the money for other things and the car dies, are we on the hook for him to get a new car, because of his crappy choices? If we would have advised him to maybe fix the car before it died, he’d say mind your own business, it’s his choice. Now that the choice backfires, the responsible are now supposed to take care of the irreaponsible?
Many places give discounts, sizeable discounts for patients without insurance paying put of pocket. I say work with them on a case by case basis to get their bills paid off however possible for each individual. I also said make it possible for private people and groups to donate money to help those with medical bill problems, directly to whatever hospitals they want, totally tax deductible.