Conservatives are pro-choice now?
Up until your choices effect the freedom of others, yes. that's me anyway. I'm not much of a conservative anymore.
You still have choice. The insurance industry made sure of that. You can choose from hundreds of policies available to you. You ask for a choice of having insurance or not. Yet how many of those screaming about losing this choice would ever consider going without insurance?
That's really the argument you want to use? It's okay to mandate things because pretty much everyone would choose to do it anyway? Fucking brilliant.
I find all of this very interesting that the OP asked a question about freedom lost, and when one is obviously pointed out where now there is less choice than there was before, none of you slimy libs have the integrity to say 'okay you're right, Obama did take away some freedom'. At the very least admit it and explain why in this instance removing freedom is okay.
OK.....fair enough
If you want the right to choose not to have health insurance. How about you sign a waiver of coverage so that if you are in an accident or get cancer that you agree that the state does not have to pick up your bill?
Are you ready to sign?
YES!
See never once have I suggested that you should not be responsible financially for services rendered to you, medical or otherwise. In this thread or maybe another we talked about EMATLA (I think that's the acronym) which basically says an emergency room can not refuse emergency care to someone. Whether they can pay at the time or not, you treat them. You work out how they're going to pay for it later if they can't. What government ought to be doing is facilitating that by fiiguring out how to make what you do have to pay cost less.
I get that most people aren't going to choose to not have insurance in which case it makes it very easy to say 'well let's just make having it mandatory then'. But it is extremely dangerous I believe to set a precedent that government can enact laws telling you what you must go out and privately purchase. Would you be okay with government requiring you to go out and purchase a Prius?
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