If you can afford to pay your doctor, why should you be forced to aquire insurance? Just to please some beauracrat. Bullshit.
This is not for your sake Gonz because I am sure no amount of logic and reason can penetrate....
A lot of people could afford to pay for their average medical costs out of pocket, but one day they are driving, say in the winter with the whole family in the car. The car hits an icy patch and goes out of control and down an embankment, and you, your two urchins and the wife are all hurt very badly. You only have liability car insurance!!! If you figure that going to an ER for dehydration is about a $500 bill, I dare not dream of what four very seriously injured people, ER and trauma care through discharge will be. This is all care that the hospital HAS to provide regardless of your inability to pay. Suffice to say $10K is probably insanely conservative, probably much more like 50-500K. Well guess what? If you were to pay it, you could sell your house, your cars, all that you own and still have a bill owing. Nobody can live without a house though, and you have to have a car to get to work when you recover.
Long story short, more often than not, folks in such situations either file bankruptcy, or can't or don't pay and get thrown in collections. Nobody plans an accident. The icy patch wasn't insured....Hell its tight times for most folks, and if it isn't for you, you goddamn well ought to feel blessed.
The bottom line though, is all those unpaid medical bills get passed on to you the next time and everybody else! If people don't have to have it, they often won't. That is why car insurance was made mandatory, and that is why there is a lot of sound logic to extend that to the health care industry.
Hopefully this simple dose of logic didn't fry anyone's mind. I know thinking things all the way through and considering the bigger picture is nearly impossible for hardcore conservatives, but I am sure you are immune from caring anyway.
