Spread the Wealth Around – Take 2
by Mike on Jul.17, 2009, under Political
Yesterday, in response to a question from CBS News Medical Correspondent, Dr. Jon LaPook, as to “whether each individual American should be required to have health insurance”, President Obama responded:
I have come to that conclusion. During the campaign, I was opposed to this idea because my general attitude was the reason people don’t have health insurance is not because they don’t want it, but because they can’t afford it. And if you make it affordable, then they will come. I’ve been persuaded that there are enough young uninsured people who are cheap to cover, but are opting out. To make sure that those folks are part of the overall pool is the best way to make sure that all of our premiums go down. I am now in favor of some sort of individual mandate as long as there’s a hardship exemption…
In other words, if you are young and healthy, we need you to pay into an insurance system, whether you want to or not, to subsidize the costs of folks who are not as healthy as you.
This is how you lose your freedom. You are not allowed to decide how you spend the fruits of your labor. It sounds good – “all of our premiums go down”. However, if you are paying no premiums today and tomorrow your are paying premiums for a service you do not want or need, how did your “premiums go down”?
First it was rich perople, now its healthy people – who is next?
