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It falls under social contract. In order to drive on U.S. roads you must have car insurance. In order to live on U.S. soil, you should be required to have catastrophic health insurance. We see these kinds of "social contracts" at all levels of government. For example, as a price of living in the community I live in, I cannot have my grass ass high out front. As a price of living in the United States, you can't just dump your motor oil out in the front yard rather than disposing of it properly.
Now, the problem as I see it with requiring individuals to have a catastrophic policy is that it violates the principle of self ownership. I own me, thus why do I have to insure me? The counter to that though, is that if I own me and you own you, why am I having to bear the financial risk of you choosing not to have a catastrophic policy?
Which is more important? The right to live life without being charged to live that life? Or money? That is what this whole debate boils down to.
I know a lot of people think that they shouldn't be charged for someone else's health care but in this case I would rather everyone be charged for someone else's health care than to be charged for simply living.
BTW, the social contracts that you talk about is not about life. They are about environment.
And your talk about living within the US so you must have health insurance, coupled with your explanation of "I own me" is contradictory unless you are advocating serfdom.
Main Entry: serf
Pronunciation: \ˈsərf\
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Old French, from Latin servus slave
Date: 1611
: a member of a servile feudal class bound to the land and subject to the will of its owner
Mirriam-Webster dictionary
What your basically saying is that there is no private property. The land is either A: owned by the federal government or B: by society and no one has private property and thereby you yourself are subject to EVERYTHING that people would subject onto you. Including things like which shows to watch, what foods to eat, and even to the extant of slavery. After all..you live on US soil, not your own.