President Obama wants every American citizen to be required to buy a health insurance policy. He compares it to the requirement that motorists purchase auto insurance. But while driving is a privilege, life and the pursuit of happiness is a right!

Where in the Constitution or Bill of Rights is the Federal Governments authority to require the purchase of a health insurance policy as a condition of having been born?
Where is freedom when government has the power to tell you how to spend after tax dollars? What distinguishes disposable income from taxes?

As for the proposal that the IRS be charged with fining citizens who do not purchase a health insurance policy, since the federal government just prints more paper money to pay debt why is taxation or the IRS even necessary. Just shutdown the IRS and transfer its budget to indigent care!

Now that America is the worlds biggest debtor nation the Federal Government has decided the plight of the uninsured is unconscionable and universal coverage is a moral imperative.

But this is not about the 46 million uninsured. It is about assuring health insurance companies’ market share and health care professionals expected incomes and lifestyles.

The health system in America has been based on a larger and more affluent generation of young policy holders offsetting the health cost of middle aged and seniors. This formula is being upset by the WWII baby boomers generation approaching retirement and the global recession

Is providing health care an enumerated power or responsibility of the Federal Government?

The Federal Government lacks any authority to preach fiscal responsibility. It has exhibited none in my lifetime and has reduced the wealthiest nation on the planet to world’s biggest debtor nation.

But Ma and Pa citizen have had to balance a checkbook their entire lives. The solution is to return control of health care spending to them.

Pass a law making it illegal for an employer to offer health insurance as an employee benefit. End wage stagnation and give employees raises instead.

Doing away with group health insurance and forcing insurance providers to compete for individual business will permit cost conscious Ma and Pa to shop for the best deal, like they do auto insurance. Then the free market will bring costs under control!

2. I imagine that not seeking out required preventative care would simply void your national health insurance. Truth be told, this is one of the reasons why health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket. Eventually, preventative care will be required in both Market and Government health insurance plans. The Market may offer some hands-off plans, but they will either be super-expensive or super-restrictive. Health insurance right now is like a parts-and-labor warranty on your car with no requirement for oil changes or regular maintenance. You can’t drive your car into the ground and expect to not void your warranty. It is only a matter of time before Health Insurance providers realize this stupidity is going on, and fix the matter in requiring preventative care.