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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I do not agree with this, but I'll grant it, as you granted my earlier point.
The rights of individuals to buy the policies they feel like buying trump the interests of cost-sharing.
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Let's just assume that's so. My point, which you continue to miss, is that if you were to change the law in the way you suggest, individuals would not be able to buy the policies they feel like buying. So you need to find some other principle to invoke.
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Finding that some people deserve to have their costs offset by forcing others to buy insurance is a troubling encroachment enough. That they must do so in particular form of policy is beyond the pale.
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Why is it more of an infringement on liberty to be forced to buy insurance than to be unable to buy insurance? In both cases, your choices are limited. Do you suffer every day because the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requires you to buy auto insurance in order to drive? If so, you are remarkably stoic about it, in comparison to the deprivation you see with health insurance.
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