Why do people compare mandated health insurance to car insurance when the fines vary greatly?
Im actually getting really tired of hearing about how car insurance is mandated. Give it up, that argument is not working. Tell us why you want to fine people that much money for not buying a product?
Fine for not having health isurance = $3,800
Fine for not having car insurance = $100-$500
And not to mention that nobody is required to have car insurance if you dont own a car. You cant do that with your body now can you? What happend to choice, libs?
Central Stupidity Agency: didnt answer my question. Typical
FAIL!!!!
Patrick posted: 03 Aug at 10:17 am
Liberals are idiots.
It’s useless to try to reason with them. They exist solely in the realm of emotions.
Unka Dano posted: 03 Aug at 11:00 am
Dying from lack of medical care should not be a choice.
BTW, Why do republicans insist on the uninsured continuing to use our emergency rooms for free health care and then stick the taxpayer with the bill?
When will republicans learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch?
DAR posted: 03 Aug at 11:08 am
auto is by states where it is Constitutional if it is a condition for a ‘priviledge’ of driving.
It is NOT Constitutional by the federal government which has no enumerated power to cause 300 million people to purchase terrible government designed insurance they don’t want. The tenth Amendment to the constitution says all powers not ENUMERATED to the federal government are reserved to the states and to the people.
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mike, Dems have the votes. If you vote it in, you’ll be voted out and it will be overturned. It doesn’t start until after Obama’s reelection campaign, I wonder why? So there is plenty of time to overturn it with a new congress.
Natasha, most young adults need less in care than they would pay in premiums. They are not being made to buy it because THEY need it but because ins cos want them in the pool to offset more expensive people. For VERY MANY of the uninsured, forcing this on them is doing something ‘TO’ them, not ‘FOR’ them.
Central Stupidity Agency posted: 03 Aug at 11:34 am
Google “health care reform” and do a little reading.
Fail!
mike posted: 03 Aug at 11:57 am
I guess this will be the argument you repubs. have now that the bill passed the house,which i remember repubs saying it will never get passed the house. Well its on its way to the senate where it will pass also.Hate to break it to you but at least 1 repub will vote yes.
KARI W posted: 03 Aug at 12:40 pm
For one thing, auto insurance is mandated due to the fact we use public roadways. You make a good point though… is air, lifestyle, water taxable now? Apparently so.
Lag Indicator posted: 03 Aug at 12:57 pm
That is one of the most disturbing aspects of the health care bill. If it wasn’t bad enough anyway, we are in a deep recession with double digit unemployment. It’s more than just wrong, it’s cruel.
Natasha B(blocked by cowards) posted: 03 Aug at 1:56 pm
You may not have a car….but you do possess a body.
I don’t feel like paying for young adults who feel they don’t need insurance and then go running to the ER when they have a problem.
They know when they get the bill they will not pay it.
οίνου posted: 03 Aug at 2:32 pm
dont know, what i dont get is fines for no health insurance? – why should someone need isurance anyway? – oh thats right i forget, profit is more important than people in the usa right?
why can poorer countries afford to look after their people and the usa cant or doesnt want to?
spend less on wars and weapons and more on your own people would be what a smart country would do………..
spike missing debra m posted: 03 Aug at 3:22 pm
libs are notoriously ‘reality challenged’
republicans (at least, conservative republicans), despite unka dano’s foam flecked flatulations, FULLY understand that there is no free lunch-after all, they’re the ones who have been paying the tab for the giveaways and entitlements of the democrats’ welfare state
mom posted: 03 Aug at 3:41 pm
Everyone gets sick sometime in their life. I am past 70 and other than having my children I have never been in a hospital. That does not mean it won’t happen. Health care is a lot more expensive than car care. You can buy a couple of cars for what it takes for an emergency operation and it does happen and not just to other people. My youngest child was born with a breathing problem. He was in NBICU for 17 days at a cost of $18,500. That was 30 years ago too. My insurance paid it all. Would you be able to without insurance?
Susan….Go Pokes!!! posted: 03 Aug at 3:53 pm
To keep the irresponsible people from using the ER instead of buying medical insurance. We all pay the bill when people use the ER instead of having insurance. No need to get your panties in a knot, it still has to pass the senate. Unless you are one of the wealthy who will pay higher taxes, or one who refuses to buy insurance, then it will probably have little or no effect on your life.
There is the chance that an employer will switch, but they do that all of the time now.
old_quilt posted: 03 Aug at 3:57 pm
It is another stupid liberal excuse ! Nothing more !
Daniel posted: 03 Aug at 4:18 pm
I am very upset about the whole comparison between car insurance and health insurance/”Obamacare”. I am a temp worker for one of the bigger temp companies. I was given the choice of taking health insurance when I started with the company. I chose not to, not because I think I wouldn’t need/use it, but because it was lousy value ($5000 cap, and it cost $20 a week). If the present version of health insurance reform should pass intact through the Senate (or even with minor modifications) I will have to pay in on insurance that is next to useless to me, and if I don’t, I get fined- no one is sure how much. When I had a car, the insurance cost me 36 dollars a month, and for which I got good value. I even had road hazard coverage, so if the battery went dead, I got reimbursed for the truck to start it. Driving in a lot of places is a privilege; in rural areas such as mine it is damn near a necessity. Personally, if the government wants to help people get care, let the government open hospitals of their own, and leave the rest of the system alone. I tend to believe that health care is going to get way expensive when it becomes “free” to anyone that doesn’t have 2 cents to rub together. Medicaid expansion won’t work either- just who is going to pay for that? We already have a dollar that is better used as toilet paper- China doesn’t want to lend money to us indefinitely.