re: #223 Targetpractice

The argument under the Commerce Clause is because there’s no “opting out” of healthcare, everybody ends up in the market eventually. Unless you go off the grid from the moment your parents drop you from their insurance and live like a hermit, you’re going to end up in the hospital at some time. By saying that you have a “choice” to stay out of the system until you eventually get sick/injured enough to show up at the hospital, what you’re really saying is that you have a “choice” to dump your eventual medical costs on everybody else in the market.

Hence the mandate, which the Right used to champion, back when they thought it meant “personal responsibility.”

Yes, well, what I don’t get about this is that 99.9% (I assume) of us are born in to the system. In a hospital—we incur costs. WE have to be vaccinnated etc.

If we present at an ER without insurance, we still get a bill—no? Somehow we pay. Individuals and taxpayers.

The idea that we are being forced to buy anything seems an absurd argument. We already get the services and we pay (in a round about way).