Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Why Indeed Healthcare

The Supreme Court Justices asked why this healthcare law is different than manditory burial insurance or requiring broccoli consumption? The answer is obvious, one only dies once, it can be assumed, and with fairly fixed basic costs other than health insurance which would be possibly substantial without coverage. Health coverage if unexpected, could possibly be continuous and chronic if pre-existing clauses prevent their coverage.
As for an individual mandate, I would ask the Justices to describe the economic damage comparable to death & chronic illness, lack of broccoli consumption would result in.
So neither is a comparable set of circumstances and further shows the uniqueness of health insurance that requires extraordinary measures of a personal mandate to allow a fully functional system. Without this concept, universal coverage is regulated to emergency rather than preventative coverage and escallates costs beyond all foreseeable control

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