Quote:Regarding the part in bold, why is that?

 

Either way, employers should not be required to offer health insurance, just like they aren't required to offer a retirement savings plan.  It all goes back to personal responsibility.

 

By the same token, having health insurance should not be mandatory by law.  It should be a personal choice.

 

Employers offering health insurance as a benefit started in World War II. Companies were unable to increase wages (wage and price controls) so they offered health care as an enticement.

 

Having health insurance will/needs to be mandatory. Otherwise you'll never have enough healthy people paying to support the sick people. Which is why we're heading down the road to a single payer system. People who call themselves conservative will kick and scream, but there really is no better system as an alternative, at least that I'm aware of, in the advanced industrialized world. Insurance companies aren't about to cover sick people, old people, and especially old sick people unless they are assured of receiving funds from healthy young people. Or the government.

 

And that's what Donald Trump, in his incoherent, bumbling way, was getting at in the above 60 minutes quote. He's right.

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