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Originally Posted by detbuch
So, you're all in for the Federal Government having the power to require you to buy something?
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Detbuch, on one hand, it seems awfully totalitarian for the feds to require us to buy something, doesn't it?
On the other hand, hear me out here...some folks are born healthy (thanks to nothing but good luck), some are born sick (through no fault of theirs). It seems to me, and I bet most folks agree, that folks who are born sick, or get sick by bad luck, shou'dn't have to suffer financial hardship because of something they had no control over. Meaning, we should all be required to pitch in to help them out. And one way to do this is to require healthy people to buy insurance, and this will help create the funds to help pay for sick folks.
Maybe there's another way to fund what I'm talking about, without requiring everyone to buy insurance. But I have no problem saying to healthy people "look, you are only healthy by blind luck, so we all have the responsibility to help those who were not as lucky".
As for people who smoke, and choose to be overweight...they should have to pay a huge premium for healthcare.
What do you think?