Reply To: Political Statements
The biggest complaint I have about the “everyone must have insurance” approach is that it imposes a legal requirement to pay money to an industry. In my mind, this is worse than a tax; it’s corporate welfare without the government even pretending to act as an intermediary. It feels like the insurance industry bought Congress. I’d be much happier if there were a public option; then people would at least have the freedom to avoid throwing their money at a group of stockholders.
(I’m far less bothered about legal requirements for car insurance, since car ownership itself isn’t obligatory.)