Reply #7: Bullshit argument [View All]

If it's insurance, you need a free market. Insurance companies need to compete for your dollar, and they need to compete to entice people who refuse to, or cannot, pay higher prices - that means they need to have downwards price pressure, like in any free market system. If they can raise rates and not run the risk of losing "customers", they're not in a free market and it's not insurance. It's called fascism.

When purchase is compelled, it's not "insurance" any more, it's more like a Monopoly board where you pay cash to a system of for-profit health panels who get paid to limit care each time you pass "go". No exceptions. And I don't have cash or a get out of jail free card. I'll have to take a "chance".