Health Insurance

CKNSLS wrote:

bid_time wrote:
The auto insurnace thing aint even close the the same. You don't have to buy auto insurance hundreds of millions of people don't - O-car everyone is forced to buy insurance, young and old alike, car or no car; and if you don't you can get one of them "I will not raise taxes on the middle class" taxes. Auto insurance you can pick what suits you, higher deductible, PL-PD only, $1M of coverage, $1K of coverage, etc., etc. etc. O-care you have 3 choices, all of them expensive (unless of course you get one of them take from someone else subsidies).

There are many states that have EDI (electronic data interface) between their DMV and Insurance companies. When insurance is cancelled the car registration is cancelled almost immediately. Yes, when you drive in most states you can't get away with no auto insurance. FYI.

Everyone should have medical insurance. One of the problems in the past has been people checking the cheapest box on their companies cafeteria medical plans, then at some point having a serious condition/accident,etc., that requires an emergency room visit/hospitalization, and then finding out the cheapest box they checked hardly covers anything/or a deductible so high they can't pay the bill....and guess what they rest of us gets those costs passed on to us. The minimum plans address some of these issues under ACA. You left that part out.

It would have been cheaper to provide some bankruptcy avoiding level of insurance protection for the uninsured (by raising taxes) rather then force everyone to buy insurance they don't need (like free birth control pills for a 60 year old male).

P.S. - over a hundred million people don't even own a car, hence driving without insurance has nothing to do with it. FYI

And let's not forget, when it's all said and done there are still going to be 30 million people that don't have health insurance. So what have we accomplished and at what cost?