You’re right. However, they can argue that your health can affect others, which is true. Case in point, the current H1N1 virus frenzy. They didn’t quarantine Mexico, but they are more than happy to now declare a national emergency in the US.

I have to wonder if people of different risk categories will be required to pay a different “premium”. I also wonder if the projected $100 billion annual expenditure is only to extend coverage to the 15 million or so people who do not currently have insurance. I further wonder how they can claim a deficit neutral reform when the country is $12 trillion dollars in debt (on the books) and has over $100 trillion dollars in known unfunded liabilities.

I suppose this is what happens when people prefer government responsibility to their own. While the people wait for their health care, the government will hold their wealth in “trust” until service is required. People will have less disposable income to invest in businesses and in new ventures. There are more ways than one to neuter this nation.

What a progressive nation. It reminds of the CCCP and its totalitarian regime. The “elites” and their supporters were separate and unequal, while the rest waited to be selected for a higher purpose. Personally, I prefer the free market system. Let the people decide what your contribution is worth, rather than an oligarchy.

Auto insurance is required so that if your negligence injures or damages another, you will pay for your negligence.

Health insurance is to protect you from yourself, and is therefore nobody else’s fucking business.

It won’t be a “premium” when it’s withheld from your paycheck. Just like taxes are not taxes, but revenue. The people do love their semantic games.

she had great coverage working for Obama

That’s typical of totalitarian (i.e., socialist, communist, empire, etc.) systems. The “elites”, their supporters, and a select few, are well funded. The difference between the free market and socialism, is the differene between the people and “elites” deciding your worth. There agenda is only radical in that it will restore the old, failed systems. It is certainly change… for the worse.

What’s interesting, is that more contemporary liberals do not balk at “inequality before the law”. At sometime, somewhere the liberalism we knew and loved was perverted into its contemporary incarnation.

Social security and Medicare? That is what congress is using against us. No, its not Constitutional but they did it then and they will cram it down us now.

They do offer mandatory retirement, health care for elderly and “poor”, etc., services; subsidized real estate, higher education, for-profit “non-profit” businesses, etc., products; where revenues are raised through involuntary exploitation of tax payers, none of which promote the general welfare.

TexRex:

Yes, it is all about choice. Anything else is involuntary exploitation, which is slavery by any other name. Furthermore, people not only have the choice of transportation and insurance provider; but, they also have the choice to develop their own transportation or insurance business. The capitalist, free-market system is full of opportunities for hope and change, for those willing to assume the risk and make the investment.

Anyone else notice the rationing of the swine flu vaccine that’s going on now?