Saturday, October 17, 2009

Kiss Your Money and Freedom Goodbye - legislating personal responsibility!

Mark Hillman at TownHall.com opens his article with:
Talk about personal responsibility is cheap. Legislating personal responsibility isn't. Take the movement to require everyone to purchase government-approved health insurance.
Some facts, including these, follow:
Many states ... require drivers to have automobile insurance; yet the number of uninsured drivers is estimated at 14 percent nationally...

..the Congressional Budget Office found that its individual purchase mandate would still leave 25 million uninsured - out of some 30 million that CBO says are currently uninsured on any given day.
In Massachusetts, which implemented an individual mandate in 2007, the average family insurance policy now costs $13,788 a year - the most expensive in the nation.
Read more in the article about being fined and jailed for something you don't want, of for the true cost of the Senate bill, and more! In the end:
Only in Washington is it conventional wisdom that the cure for big government's errors is to make them bigger.

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