Sorry, not the same. You can choose not to buy a car but you can't choose to not live in a body in which things go wrong in a country in which you expect that someone will fix your broken leg even if you don't have enough money. Affordable health insurance is all about economies of scale and costs and expectations of humanity are such that sometimes you have to legislate personal responsibility or at least contributions. Hey, I never needed a tank to protect my backyard why should I contribute any part of my taxes to defense or once my kids are out of school why should a pay the portion of property taxes that contribute to education. Sometimes the social contract trumps your personal interpretation of what you think you do or don't need. It's a bit late to return to the wild frontier. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: Rob McCall <rob at mccallpiano.com> Sender: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:15:19 To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Reply-To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] FW: Medical costs (OT!) was:billing dilemma Huge difference, David. Auto insurance is mandated by each individual state, NOT the federal government. Secondly, I can choose not to participate in the auto insurance mandate by simply not owning a car or not driving. I can take public transportation to get around. I'm only compelled to pay if I actually participate. Mandated health insurance gives me no such option. I pay whether I want to or not. If the federal government can force you to buy a product they think you should own, then what's next? Everyone has to buy a GM car or face an Auto Tax? I mean they do have to make their money back on their investment... Rob McCall On Nov 03, 2010, at 07:25 , David Love wrote: > The discussion has become somewhat misdirected. The point I was trying to make is that the incurred costs that the uninsured often end up not paying are born by someone. The argument for mandated health insurance is not a lot different than mandated auto insurance. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101103/9ab6446e/attachment.htm>
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