Sign into Zillow.com and you will see what I mean.

 

Adding to what Justwatching said, you are not required by law to have home owners insurance.  Your mortgage may require you to have it beucase they want to protect their investment but the gov't is not mandating it.

Car insurance insures that you can pay for the injuries of others. Quite different. You don't have to carry car insurance if you don't want, just don't drive. Or if you're wealthy enough get a bond to cover your potential liabilities and then you don't have to car insurance either.

Now if they required you to carry full coverage (essentially healthy insurance....) then... I'd disagree with it too.

Vet,

I completely understand your views but, in my opinion, that is exactly what we should do. I don't believe the government should be able to tell ANY private business what it can/can't/must do (for the most part, obviously there are exceptions...). Healthcare businesses are privately run entities. Period.

Now, that being said... I don't believe most hospitals would turn away dying patients. I believe they would accept them just as they do now because of the general compassion you speak and because the free market will dictate it. Many people would no patronize a hospital that refused cared until payment is rendered, these hospitals would go out of business leaving the more compassionate ones in business.

Obviously I'm just generalizing here, there are many more specifics to my thoughts and none of these statements should be taken as bright line rules that I believe but just general beliefs.

rngrmed,

Exactly! "I can't get a job or do my homework because I can't afford the internet" - boom, private internet service providers now have to give low income people internet for free. "Oops, I forgot, I also don't have a computer." - bang, private computer manufacturers must now give away computers to the food for free.

When does it stop? Why should my neighbor have to pay for my education? My healthcare? My children's food? Why should ANYONE except me be responsible for anything of mine? Private charities help millions (billions?) of people around the globe each year without any government interference or hand holding... this wouldn't stop if the government stopped forcing other social programs. It would increase. People would create charities if only for the simple fact that they can pay themselves $250,000 as a salary for running it. So what!? It is a private charity.

Private charities would help low income people pay for medical bills, etc. But no one should take money out of your pocket, my pocket, or VietVet's pocket for this. If the government did away with all social programs across the board imagine how much more money we'd all have. We could donate to causes we believed in (like healthcare for the poor) or we could save that money so that we wouldn't need to ever use a charity ourselves....

 

If I haven't eaten in days, I can't walk in to a grocery store, get 100k worth of groceries and then worry about how to pay for it.  Or if I don't have a home, I can't squat somewhere and figure out how to pay for it? 

 

But this is how we handle our healthcare..