Quote Originally Posted by prodigy View Post
I'll take competition between private companies over the strong arm of the incapable government. Of course they don't have our best interests in mind, what company has a business plan that doesn't maximize profits? Now we are forced against our will. Meanwhile those that need this "insurance" the most are the overweight, fast food eating, cigarette smoking, soda drinking, lazy people who would think having to walk from the back of a parking lot to Wal mart counts as exercise.
We can theorize all we want, but the fact is that we have a good healthcare system that is very affordable to everyone, and you don't.
Insurance companies want to gouge you as much as possible. Their shareholder profit has to be tacked on to the actual cost of health care.
And since everyone needs healthcare, opting out doesn't save you anything because sooner or later you have to take insurance, and then you'll just have to pay more.