----------------------------------------------------------------------- just get rid of the unAmerican mandate and i am good Penny !!
Do you have auto insurance? Do you pay taxes? Do you leave your children at home alone? Do you drink and drive? Do you wear a seatbelt?
Dear
Penelope
Just because people consent to car insurance under state laws (which at least one state does NOT require as long as the person can show Ability to Pay)
Does NOT mean the same thing as
(A) health insurance
(B) being regulated required and fined by FEDERAL GOVT.
There is a HUGE difference!!!
(B) State laws can be voted on more directly.
It doesn't take as long to change a state law which only affects that state
As long as it takes to change a FEDERAL law through Congress which takes reps from all 50 states
Ex: I've been waiting for that mandate to be revoked for two terms now.
I owe 45 a month as the cheapest way to avoid penalty, and I can't pay it.
The repeal may go through as soon as January.
Had this been a state law, do you think it would take 8 years to change ? In TEXAS!!!
I doubt it would have passed in TX.
(A) also another huge difference with insurance
1. The car insurance is required to protect Other cars and drivers. You are not required to buy insurance to cover your own losses which are optional if you want full coverage and full replacement.
NOTE: the Equivalent of this "liabilty" insurance
Would be to require all citizens to buy life or health insurance to cover Other People in case we do something by accident or negligence that causes damage injury or death to someone else.
So if you want to pay for health care by requiring insurance, why not require it in cases of crime accident or negligence to Other People. So if people commit crimes or cause accidents, they are required to pay through their insurance.
2.
Penelope there are other ways and better ways to provide for health care besides insurance.
If someone wants to build charity hospitals to serve the public while training doctors and nurses under a medical school program,
Why should people who fund that be FINED for using their money to pay for medical education and services instead of paying for insurance!
Spiritual healing is FREE and would cut the costs of medical treatment while accelerating the response and recovery.
Are you going to mandate that because it will lower the costs, risks and duration of disease???
There are so many other ways and means we need to pursue in order to maximize and develop resources for sustainable health care.
Why would you insist on requiring "insurance as the only way to provide health coverage to avoid penalties" while PUNISHING taxpayers for wanting to invest in OTHER choices that we still need anyway if we're going to develop universal care.