Damn, Ann Althouse is indeed reasonable in that thread. Shocka.

You have a blind spot. This isn’t about welfare. This is about health insurance. A person, rich or poor, buys health insurance. They pay for it and they are entitled to the coverage they bought. This is a debate about what coverage should be required.

And by the way, students paying a lot of money for tuition and room and board and the required health insurance plan are in a very tight situation, going deeper and deeper into debt and facing a tough job market. Their arguments for the insurance to cover the things they use make plenty of sense. You don’t have to be persuaded, but your joking about fat girls isn’t persuasive!