How Much Would You Pay For Mandated Health Insurance ?

Of course, it protects the public if you get treated for a communicable disease. That's why the societal benefit of vaccination far outweighs any individual benefit.

 

Great have government paid for (tax payer paid for) vaccinations for communicable disease and stop at that.

 

Point is, there's a big legal and some would argue moral difference between:

1) Government nationalizing a system and regulating its use

2) Government mandating you purchase a product from a private industry for use in a private industry. (Though honestly, I've lost track of this meandering bill and have no idea if that's where we are at this point or not).

 

But we also interact with the public. Wouldn't the government have the role of protecting us from the sick by mandating insurance? It's a silly argument to make based on the premise that the government shouldn't get involved in health insurance, but you could do that with any regulation and not get anywhere. It comes down to a majority of our federal elected officials voted for this and the way to overturn it is to vote them out.

I read and hear that our elected officials are ignoring the will of the people? Well, there are elections for a reason.

 

How the fuck does mandating insurance protect anyone from "the sick"? That may be the dumbest fucking thing posted on this thread.

Or are liberals so fucking around the bend they think King Barry's health plan will wipe out all illness in Amerika?

 

Pretty sure they're around that bend, and at this point, supporters just want the bill passed as a big FU to those they disagree with. Whether it helps is irrelevant. And that's only fair because helping people was never what this bill was about. It's always been about gaining enough control of the medical industry as a first step toward a single-payer system. The government is not interested in competing with insurance companies; it wants to put them out of business. But no one in the Democrat Party has the balls to say that.

 

Putting all those insurance agency employees out of business sure won't help the unemployment numbers.

Wonder when King Barry is going to try and work on that problem.

 

Didn't know you guys were such experts on the 'liberal agenda'...

 

IN BEFORE THE LOCK!!!!!

 

It could be used as an argument for why the government is mandating health insurance. Isn't the reason why we have to get car insurance is because the public is "protected" if we get hit?

 

Car insurance isn't federally mandated.

 

Does it matter what level of government mandates it? You can justify pretty much anything on a constitutional basis.