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For me mandating that everyone have HC insurance is nothing short of taxing or making a person pay to live. If you don't have insurance you get a fine via the courts. What happens if you don't pay that fine? You go to jail. That is putting someone in jail for just living.
There does not necessarily have to be jail time for that. What's your alternative? Right now taxpayers pick the bill up as well as hospitals, many of which operate in the red. That to me is unacceptable. I suspect it is to most people as well.
At least with mandatory HC, we move some of the burden off of the taxpayers and on to those who use medical services. Why should the taxpayer and hospital be forced to pick up all of the bill? Why shouldn't the uninsured at least pay for part of it?
And I'd be all for removing mandatory HC is there was insurance that was cheap enough so that even the poorest of the poor could get some coverage.
I don't see how it is fair to expect the taxpayer and hospitals to pick up the bill and not expect the uninsured to pay a dime. And that's what your argument does.