On Saturday, March 25, 2017 at 9:41:26 AM UTC-4, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 3/25/2017 8:45 AM, philo wrote:


To say that people can opt out of health insurance would be like saying
people can opt out of car insurance.


No one is going to go through life never having a health issue of some
sort. It's possible for someone to drive their whole life and never get
in a car accident.



If you have no health insurance (your choice) you can just go home and
die. If you crash into a car and injure 5 people, you are liable. You
do NOT have to insure your own car though.

Except of course, that we all know that people don't just go home to die.
They go to the ER with no insurance and the rest of the people, who are
paying for insurance or paying income taxes, etc, get stuck paying for
them too. And while it's true that if you crash into 5 people you are
liable, it's also true that you can't get blood out of a turnip.
People with no auto insurance typically have no assets, can declare
bankruptcy, etc.