According to the man speaking for the Cato Institute on PBS last night, everyone should have a right to an "uninsured" body.
Afterall, as he said, you can opt out of car insurance if you don't drive. Similarly you can refuse home insurance by not having a mortgage. We deserve, he said, the say "opt out" choice for health insurance.
But what if non-health insurance paying citizens aren't worth the expense they cause all of us later when they get sick?
Isn't it true that if you don't own a car you can't have a car accident, but if you have a body, you may still get sick, and if you do, other people, taxpayers or charites who cover the uninsured will have to intervene to save your life.
It's not about who gets covered, it is about who pays. Healthcare is the one thing that it seems Americans like to overpay for, as long as the people they overpay to are not the government. But they only want to overpay if they can also punish people with the freedom to be uninsured.
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