On Feb 5, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> Jenny Brown asks:
>
>> How is forcing people to pay for private insurance that may
>> or may not cover you an improvement over not doing so?
>
> I suppose we could ask the same about things like Auto Liability
> Insurance[*] and Workers Compensation Insurance?
This is a careless fallacy. Both types of *liability* insurance have to be compulsory in order to protect third parties against your own fault. What possible reason is there to compel a Christian Scientist or a Seventh-Day Adventist to buy personal medical insurance?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos