KevinWestern
Hello
Before anyone says anything, Im suggesting this to make a point, not because I support this.
Let's have Congress pass a mandate that requires every citizen to purchase a gun.
The Supreme Court has already said it's Constitutional.
Is this seriously what we want the Federal Govenrment doing?
I'm not a big fan of mandated healthcare, but I'll say that I do understand where supporters are coming from. Healthcare is unique in that consumers:
(a) know nothing about the cost of the services they're buying (due to insurance)
(b) have zero knowledge on the quality of the services they're buying (because not everyone's a doctor)
So who's driving efficiencies in that market exactly? The insurance companies?
Proposing that everyone buy a gun is NOT a relatable example, because healthcare is a wholly unique case study in economics (should there be a role for gov't?), whereas the gun market is not. Consumers can evaluate price/quality of guns on their own - no need for gov't intervention.
Make sense?
I see where you're coming from, but I just don't think it's a very good example.
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