THE HEALTH CARE MANDATE IN A NUTSHELL

Heard this explanation of the health care mandate yesterday and thought I’d share it. Consider the Gas Tax. Because we need decent roads to drive our cars on, we are all asked to pay a tax on the gas we consume, which is then used to maintain our national road system. The mandate to purchase health care insurance, and to pay a penalty to the IRS if you don’t, can be looked at in the same way. We ALL use health care services eventually, and we all will NOW be required to pay for that care. No more “free-riders” who show up at hospitals for health care and then do not pay — causing everyone else’s insurance premiums to go up. And now — as we all pay the gas tax for decent roads — we must either purchase insurance or pay the penalty to help defray the costs that are eventually incurred, in order to maintain a decent national health care system … as we have a decent national road system paid for by ALL.