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Originally Posted by KillerK
I don't understand how they can force you to purchase it.
I understand why you have car insurance, so I hope they don't use it was an example.
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While I don't agree with it, I do see why they want to force people to buy health insurance. With this law they are now going to force insurance companies to insure people that they are going to lose money on. The reason they don't take people with pre-existing conditions is because those people are money losers for the insurance company. Now they are going to be forced to take on customers that they will lose money on. So as an offset this is the government telling the insurance industry "We are going to force you to take on people you will lose money on, but in exchange we will be handing you over a ton of other customers."
So I see why they did it, but I don't agree with it and I think it will ultimately be struck down in court. If it is struck down, look for insurance companies to sue about being forced to take on people with pre-existing conditions. They are not going to be happy about having to take on cases where they know they will lose money without some sort of compensation.