I canceled my health insurance some time back because:
1. I haven’t needed it, ever.
2. It kept getting more expensive, and
3. It didn’t really insulate me from health care-related ruin, anyway.
After pouring fifteen thousand dollars down that rat hole in just the past couple years, I decided I’d have been better cared for with that 15 grand in the bank -- and it would have been there for other emergencies, too.
So, now the House wants me to carry insurance I don’t need or want, and tax me to pay for it; or fine me (or imprison me) if I don’t?
As the president so often says, “Look!” If we have universal health care, we don’t need health insurance. All this act does is criminalize my choice to eliminate the middleman, by making the all-knowing government the new middleman.
Insurance, by its nature, has to take in more than it pays out. If it doesn’t, its managers are being irresponsible. If government health insurance is likewise irresponsible (politicians call it “affordable”), then taxpayers will pay through other channels — or there will simply be less or lower-quality care available to all (except for the ruling class, of course).
This health care plan is ultimately just one more tax, and it transfers the most serious power imaginable away from the people, to our almighty government bureaucrats.
Tim Kern
Anderson
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