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If it is EMERGENCY care then OK, but just I have a cold or a twenty-hour virus do NOT take that to ER either take it to the urgent care places or deal with it. Why? because there are people who NEED the emergency room and they are not meant to treat "petty" conditions. Why should I be forced I mean if I understand the results of not doing so may be money problems down the road why so I be forced to be covered against that? Keep in mind that you CAN control how much tax you pay or even if you pay most of the time Property tax do not own any or not much land you pay less or none (directly) Income tax as bad as it is that some people give just for this some do not, but donating and also not making as much lowers that tax. Sales tax you can buy streak or you can buy hamburger meat, you can buy name brand clothes or used clothes/cheaper brands You can choose to buy CDs and other "fun" stuff or not. The simper you live the less sales tax you pay. Why because though it's based on a percentage of the purchase price but, 7%, in Georgia of say fifty dollars is lower than that on say $100 or 200 dollars, so all of that to say that in a sense people CAN control how much tax they pay towards various things, and do not forget voting, if enough people are against a certain (particularly local or state tax on the ballot they do not vote for it, or if it is not on the ballot they complain about it and do not vote back in the people who raised/created that particular tax. Why should I have to buy insurance (or pay a fine) if I do not want it? Even police I can choose to make use of those services or not (mostly any service besides the armed forces). If you rob me and I choose not to report it then there's nothing they can do. Same with the fire department media centers and yes even public schools, so even though they are forced to pay people can choose not to use those services. If I do not want insurance then why should I be forced to have it and/or use it? (for the I do not know how many times I have to say if someone can afford it or NOT) they may still refuse treatment. If I do not have the money for something I do not get it. People have that option/right even if you CAN afford itOK, that is sorta how it is done now. And you are OK with that?
40,000 people die each year in America because they don't have health insurance. They may try to get others to help, but the bills are huge, and they cannot pay, so they go without the needed care, and they die.
They die. Are you OK with that?
Are you OK with forcing hospitals to provide emergency services to the uninsured? Then you are not opposed to all forcing.
Are you OK with forcing people to pay taxes to pay for military protection and police forces, even though they personally would rather not pay their taxes? Then you are not opposed to all forcing.
If it is OK to force hospitals to treat the uninsured, and OK to force people to pay taxes, why is it wrong to force people who could afford insurance but choose not to do so to pay a fee that makes up for the free services they can get at the emergency room?
If a person can afford to get insurance and doesn't, and then is in an accident and this forces the hospital to treat him even though he is uninsured, what would be wrong with forcing such people to pay an annual fee to cover this? If we don't do that, we are forcing hospitals to cover these people who want something for nothing. Are you OK with that?
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