06-29-2012, 06:26 PM
[quote fish_or_die]I'm an architect, not a politician so I don't understand a lot of what goes on in Washington. My biggest beef is any time our government tries to compel me to do something. Case in point, I don't currently have insurance. This law says to me, buy insurance or we'll fine (tax) you. It is not the federal government's business to tell me I have to have insurance, I am an adult and will decide that for myself! They have no right to say I MUST have insurance!
I agree, the rest sounds like it may (time will tell) be a decent bit of legislation, but if we let Washington tell us how to run our lives in this manner, what's next? They have no right to mandate how I choose to live my life, so long as it doesn't harm or limit anyone else. The framers of the constitution gave us the right to the PURSUIT of happiness, not the guarantee of it. What socialists (which is a mild form of communism) want is equality for everyone. Equal men are not free and free men are not equal.[/quote]
The reasoning behind them saying that you must have insurance is that if you get into a horrible accident, the hospital has to take you in and provide coverage if you have insurance or not! So if you have a million dollars worth of injuries and surgeries, and then are in no position to go back to work to pay off your bills who get's stuck with the bill? The hospital, or the state? Either way everyone else pays either higher insurance premiums or higher taxes because you chose not to get insurance.
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I agree, the rest sounds like it may (time will tell) be a decent bit of legislation, but if we let Washington tell us how to run our lives in this manner, what's next? They have no right to mandate how I choose to live my life, so long as it doesn't harm or limit anyone else. The framers of the constitution gave us the right to the PURSUIT of happiness, not the guarantee of it. What socialists (which is a mild form of communism) want is equality for everyone. Equal men are not free and free men are not equal.[/quote]
The reasoning behind them saying that you must have insurance is that if you get into a horrible accident, the hospital has to take you in and provide coverage if you have insurance or not! So if you have a million dollars worth of injuries and surgeries, and then are in no position to go back to work to pay off your bills who get's stuck with the bill? The hospital, or the state? Either way everyone else pays either higher insurance premiums or higher taxes because you chose not to get insurance.
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