Most people would prefer not to spend money on car insurance. It's expensive and maybe you won't need it. However, it s MANDATED that everybody buy car insurance for the GOOD of everybody else. That's protecting ALL the American people because we all have to pick up the costs of uninsured motorists. Health care works the same way.
How can you not get this?
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I've never been impressed with the analogy of car insurance to health insurance, because for one thing people don't have to drive.
Perhaps a more equivalent comparison with healthcare in this democracy where everyone needs medical treatment throughout their lifetime might be other necessities for survival, such as food, water, and shelter (protection from the elements). We subsidize food costs, heating oil expenses, housing, because it's necessary for human survival.
There are resources that should be nationalized, such as water and oil and land. They belong to all of us, as our birthright, to share, and not for the 1% to take and sell them for profit, for their own private gain.
There are services which we recognize are necessary, like fire-fighting and policing, that are non-profit. Or used to be. We chipped in through our taxes to pay for these services, in order to get these services for a reasonable price.
The same should be true for medical treatment. When Americans say, "Don't touch my Medicare", that is what they are saying that they want.
Obama took single payer (Medicare For All) off the table, because if the goal is to get affordable quality medical care for all then everything else pales in comparison. He's preserving an anachronistic and failed insurance industry and employer-provided system for medical care. It's government-sanctioned racketeering.
Insurance adds NOTHING to the medical model. The insurance industry is the 'Don Fanucci' (Godfather, Part II -- "I don't want a lot...Just enough to wet my beak") of medical care, letting you get medical care only if you pay them a gratuity up front.
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