There was some moral outrage yesterday at the notion I don’t want to subsidize other people’s health care. Ann helpfully sums up my position:
The government also “helped” us by mandating that insurance companies cover all sorts of medical services, both ordinary — which you ought to pay for yourself — and exotic, such as shrinks, in vitro fertilization and child-development assessments — which no normal person would voluntarily pay to insure against.
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But politicians are more interested in pleasing lobbyists for acupuncturists, midwives and marriage counselors than they are in pleasing recent college graduates who only want to insure against the possibility that they’ll be hit by a truck.
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As a result, a young, healthy person has a choice of buying artificially expensive health insurance that, by law, covers a smorgasbord of medical services of no interest to him … or going uninsured.
Amen.
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“As a result, a young, healthy person has a choice of buying artificially expensive health insurance that, by law, covers a smorgasbord of medical services of no interest to him … or going uninsured.”
Well, I guess soon we won’t even have that choice, will we? You’ll be FINED if you don’t subsidize your neighbor’s holistic herbal fixation.
I’m still trying to figure out why I, a single male, am paying for pregnancy coverage, yearly mammograms, and birth control pills.
Phelps:
I thought Aziz made that clear. It’s because HE THINKS YOU HAVE A MORAL OBLIGATION TO DO SO!!!
And since he thinks so, he’s fine with putting the full weight of the US Government behind forcing you to do it. After all, it’s all for the best! Just ask Aziz! He knows what’s best for everyone!
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