Is it any wonder that the insurance and pharmaceutical industries are behind these kind of reforms? According to the New York Times, "The drug industry has authorized its lobbyists to spend as much as $150 million on television commercials supporting President Obama’s health care overhaul, beginning over the August Congressional recess...."
Michael F. Cannon, Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, writes, "You cannot improve a bad product by forcing people to buy it. But you can make it worse. Mandating that people purchase health insurance - on their own or through an employer - will increase its cost and oust millions from their current source of coverage." He also remarks, "The health insurance lobby, for example, is all too happy to force you to buy health insurance."
The comparison between auto insurance mandates and health insurance mandates is flawed. While you can escape paying for auto insurance by refraining from driving a car, you cannot escape the clutches of a government mandate forcing you to purchase health insurance. Michael F. Cannon explains, "The only way to avoid a health insurance mandate is by divesting yourself of a body."
Check out the "Baucus Bill" (America’s Healthy Future Act of 2009), specifically Title I, Subtitle D (Personal Responsibility).
According to OpenCongress.org, Senator Max Baucus received campaign contributions in 2008 from the following pertinent special interest groups (from the top 25 interest groups giving campaign contributions to Baucus):
Here is more related reading from the Cato Institute.
They tried mandates in Massachusettes. See how well they worked:
Want a poster to use to promote the fight against government-run health care? Here you go: http://healthcare.cato.org/sites/default/files/Cato_HealthcareAd_color.pdf
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Individual Mandate to Purchase Health Insuranceposted Sep 28, 2009 9:03 AM by Beavercreek Liberty Group Dayton Tea Party [ updated Sep 28, 2009 11:12 AM ] |