Also, as I said earlier, you can choose not to have a car and thus not pay for auto insurance. You can't choose not to have health.River wrote:Why's it okay for states to require everyone to carry auto insurance but not the feds to require health insurance?
I should emphasize that I truly do believe we needed health care reform. This part of the law just does not sit well with me. A better idea, instead of mandating health insurance for all and keeping the current employment-based insurance system, would have been to keep health insurance a choice and move it to an individual- and family-based purchasing system. This supplemented by a public option funded solely on premiums would have been a far better decision, IMO.
I suppose that's water under the bridge, though. I don't by any means dislike all aspects of this bill, and the most lasting reform happens incrementally. I just don't understand why so many good ideas (at least, good ideas in my mind) were never even in consideration.