Originally Posted by AmeliaG

I'm not talking about theoretical insurance. I'm talking about insurance which exists.

Where do you live where there is any kind of health insurance for $25 a year, much less good health insurance?

What about the fact that car insurance, in my experience, whether it was mine or someone else's, always has found a way to not pay what is needed and raise the rates on anyone who needs help? How is mandated health insurance going to be better than mandated car insurance?

What about my schoolmate whose wife died where the insurance company took advantage of his grief to routinely deny 10% of her medical care, figuring a certain percentage of recent widowers will not take legal action before the statute runs out?

Lastly, how is asking the tax payer to pay for part or all of insurance for millions of people better than having the tax payer pay for the extremely rare bankrupting illness? The former is a bigger dollar number than the latter and forces a lot of middle class people to suddenly be on the dole.

Wouldn't it be better to let employers fully deduct medical care for their workers than fully deduct insurance? Or, heck, let employers pay their workers at the same tax level as they can line the insurance companies pockets? Or, if the idea is to, ya know help, get really buckwild, and have universal healthcare, not universal insurance company bailout?