At 5/4/13 03:39 PM, Osyris wrote:
if people are required to get auto insurance, then so should we be required to get health insurance. For an uninsured person, just breaking your arm can turn your finances upside down, and hospitals are forced to treat them if they go to the ER.
You aren't required to get auto insurance by Federal Law. That is a state law, and even then, driving is not a constitutional right. You don't NEED to drive, if you don't want to. Everyone at some point WILL NEED medical insurance
The solution is NOT to pass a law that burdens poor americans and small businesses with an insurance bill. These people have already forgone insurance because they can't afford it as is. Obamacare only exasperates the problem because it will raise healthcare prices, and require an insurance bill every month that normal americans can't afford as it is.
If Obamacare is so great, why is Obama and Congress trying to exempt themselves from it?
Hoover already showed that laissez-faire didn't work for shit. Bailouts are needed in order to keep the economy on the path of recovery
Hoover was a progressive. If anything, he proved merging of corporate and state power doesn't work. He was far from laissez-faire. In fact America has never been a laissez-faire nation. in fact, in many ways, it's always been the opposite.
Some industries are more "laissez-faire" than others. And you will see that in almost every leap in technology or medicine, it has been free enterprise and capitalism that made it happen.
BTW, people becoming poorer as the rich stay/become richer, is not a "recovery path".