Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Common Sense 2

After reading about the REPUBLICAN federal judge who ruled that mandatory health insurance is unconstitutional, I began to wonder who would not want health insurance, given that under the current plan it will all be either free or affordable.  I know that "affordable" is open to interpretation, but even so, if you get sick or have an accident and you have no insurance, in the vast majority of cases (unless you are filthy rich), your fellow citizens are the ones who pay for it.  Ever read about how hospitals get paid for emergency room visits by the uninsured?  The person who doesn't want health insurance, then, must be someone who wants everyone else, taxpayers, to pay for his affliction.  But isn't that what Republicans are against?  Aren't they always complaining about people who look for what they call "government handouts?"                 

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