(06-30-2017, 05:44 AM)EricC85 Wrote:

(06-25-2017, 10:00 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Well, if you can choose to not get a critical illness or injury then I'll support your right to not buy health insurance.

Either that or I want off the hook for your bill when you do and can't pay.

That's fine but you can't make the comparison of car insurance in support of mandatory health insurance. 

You want off the hook for other people's medical exoenses then eliminate insurance as it's used today period. The problem is not a lack of or excess of insurance it's an inflated marketplace without any price control due to third party supplementation. 

If you want mandated health insurance then single payer is the only way to do it with set price controls.

Absolutely you can. You are going to get sick so you must provide financial protection for that occurrence, if you do not then, like driving without insurance, you face steeper penalties until you do or you go to jail. There, it's done.

Now, having said that, I firmly believe in a robust individual marketplace and a public option alternative. If you want Blue Cross you go to the Blue Cross store and buy a policy. If you don't want private insurance then you sign up and pay for Medicare at a means tested rate. What must happen is to decouple the payment for insurance from employment, that's the third party financing that has to go.

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