We are given a choice in voting for president, candidate A or candidate B.
Hooray for A, hooray for B! One of them finally wins. Hooray B won!
Okay, B won, now is the time we should stop saying hooray for B. Now we have to watch B like a hawk. We shouldn't continue to support B because B is who we were for. We are stuck with B. We now need to be very skeptical and suspicious of every move that B makes, not just say "Fa la la, now I must support everything that B does."
The health care system is all messed up, no doubt. B comes along with a bill, a very long very hard to understand bill. Suddenly, we are running out of time, we must pass it right away! Wait a minute there B.
How many pages is this bill?
A BILL
To protect the American people’s ability to make their own health care decisions by ensuring the Federal Government shall not force any American to purchase health insurance.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Coercion is Not Health Care Act’.
SEC. 2. NO FEDERAL REQUIREMENT FOR HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE.
Participation in, or access to, any program of the Federal Government or eligibility to receive any benefit under Federal law shall not be conditioned on the purchase or maintenance of health insurance coverage.
SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON FEDERAL AUTHORITY.
No individual or agency of the Federal Government shall ever require any individual to purchase health insurance coverage.
I disagree with your attitude toward health insurance for one big reason: people who pay for health insurance are already paying for those who choose not to purchase it. The folks who don't purchase health insurance get sick or break a leg and show up at the emergency room where they get treatment. They can't pay for it, so the hospital charges the rest of us more money to cover their loss. Our insurance companies pay up and raise fees and copays to cover their loss. If you're down on your luck and can't afford coverage, I have no problem helping out. But I know there are folks out there who just want to spend the money on something else, so they elect no coverage for themselves or their families.
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