[lbo-talk] I hope you all vote(d) for Obama

[Miles Jackson]

Shane Mage wrote:
> 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?
>   
If they don't, and they end up using emergency room services, it pushes 
up the cost of health care for everyone.  If they don't, and they have 
babies without prenatal care, their babies are more likely to have birth 
complications, and it pushes up the cost of health care for everyone.  
If they don't, and their children don't get vaccinated, then morbidity 
rates will increase, and it pushes up the cost of health care for 
everyone.  What's not to get?

Miles