I’m willing to risk some bizzarre medical condition hitting me out of the blue. I regard the prospect as about as likely as winning the lottery without buying a ticket.

People sometimes get an idea of what things should cost…I’m willing to waste around $100 a month on health insurance. Offer me a policy with a $10,000, even a $15,000 deductible for $100 a month and I’ll buy it. But I’m paying much more than that.

People are required to by car insurance because of the risk of them hitting SOMEONE ELSE. My health is my own and I should be able to risk not carrying insurance if I want to. I don’t regard disease as a purely luck-of-the-draw proposition – I believe people have a lot of control over their own health. And I don’t have kids so I’m the only person who is taking any risk

To me, having the government say I have to buy insurance because they don’t want to pay for me if I get drastically ill ( Which is not the real motive) is kind of like if they told me I couldn’t make my living in the arts – because it’s a less stable career path (though I’ve found it’s actually pretty stable) and so what if I fail and wind up on welfare – and seeing as they can’t risk that I really need to study accounting.

You’ll get periodic e-mails to let you know what’s going on. And we’re working on T Shirts for the group.

I’m reasonably certain that I never used as much as I paid in all through my career. My wife might have when her kids were younger. Now, we’re going to become expensive to the plan over the next ten, twenty, or thirty years unless Comrade Obama pulls the plug on us. That’s just the way group plans work.

It’s great seeing others from Monmouth County. I thought I was the only one.

Lonegan was my choice, but I think even my cat would do a better job than Corzine. With the way some people vote in this state, I’m sure if I made flyers and ads for my cat he could win.

2. Car Insurance , unlike health insurance in most states, offers different levels of coverage. If you own your car outright, you have the option of purchasing liability insurance as opposed to full coverage.

In other words, car insurance (at least in my understanding) is offered at rates that reflect actual market forces, where as health insurance is sold at artificially depressed or (more often probably) inflated prices do to accessive regulations and things like community rating. And, as billyd pointed out, those who cause accidents pay higher premiums and 1. help cover the cost and 2. have an incentive to not cause accidents.

You ask what if an uninsured young person gets really sick? we can’t not treat them? This problem is very easily solved and is NOT THE REAL REASON THEY WANT TO ADD AN INDIVIDUAL MANDATE.

3 simple ways to solve this:

1. Send them a bill and require that it be paid.
2. Get rid of community ratings systems that require young and healthy people to pay ridiculous rates for health insurance
3. Get out of the way of inexpensive high deductible plans so people can actually purchase a level of insurance coverage that is appropriate to their situation.

None of these options are considered because they want to force people to participate in socialized medicine. Plain and simple.

I choose not to carry health insurance anymore and I assure you it’s NOT because I’m thinking the government would take care of me if I got really sick. It’s not even because I can’t afford it. It’s because the only insurance policies offered to me are extremely overpriced and only allowed me access to (at best) mediocre doctors. I stopped buying health insurance for the same reason people don’t buy most product. It’s price (in NYC) far exceeds its value.

( and that’s even including the value of appeasing my mom who sometimes freaks out about me not having insurance)

It simply isn’t worth it to me to spend $4-$5,000 a year just on the remote chance I’ll get really sick. I’m healthy. I don’t smoke, don’t drink, I work out 5 times a week….I’m not that worried and besides I just shouldn’t have to pay that much. I choose not to participate in the de facto socialism we call “community ratings” because I just think they’re flat out wrong.

What a douche.

Corzine makes me twitch when I see/hear him.

The “lack of Common Sense” was that on the part of G.W.Bush and his allowing PAULSON (the real FAILURE point) allowing him into going on his “abandon Free Market principles to save the Free Market” to which we are still all shaking our heads and wagging our finger at W over!!! The ABUSE, of course, is what came with Democrats super-sizing the Waste, Fraud, Abuse, $timulus, Dem. Money Laundering (PC excuses to $pend) (plus “extent possible” language), and countless unintended consequences (Democrats always ignore), expenditures and the other side COSTS: Surrender Doctrine (Democrats ALWAYS cut/weaken U.S.Defense).

So are you guys going to really kick Corzine in the ass.

Leopard. Great post yesterday. Hope Cincinnati is better that Cleveland. I’ve got a sister in law out there. Other than the Browns and Cavs, not much at all to do out there.

Have you been back recently?

Have you been back recently?