Soccer Dad

Is it any wonder?

Late last month Dave Price wrote why he doesn't buy health insurance:

I don't have health insurance now, and I haven't ever carried it when I wasn't working a W-2 job, because I'm generally healthy and don't particularly want to subsidize people who are more likely to require medical care. It's possible, of course, I could regret this decision due to circumstances beyond my control, but I'd prefer to put that money into investments and play the odds by making an effort to stay healthy via exercise and supplements and generally engaging in low-risk behavior.

However as Charles Krauthammer explains, one of the ways to save the President's health plan, is to deny people like Dave Price their choice:

What's not to like? If you have insurance, you'll never lose it. Nor will your children ever be denied coverage for preexisting conditions.

The regulated insurance companies will get two things in return. Government will impose an individual mandate that will force the purchase of health insurance on the millions of healthy young people who today forgo it. And government will subsidize all the others who are too poor to buy health insurance. The result? Two enormous new revenue streams created by government for the insurance companies.

And here's what makes it so politically seductive: The end result is the liberal dream of universal and guaranteed coverage -- but without overt nationalization. It is all done through private insurance companies. Ostensibly private. They will, in reality, have been turned into government utilities. No longer able to control whom they can enroll, whom they can drop and how much they can limit their own liability, they will live off government largess -- subsidized premiums from the poor; forced premiums from the young and healthy.

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So is it any surprise that the President is not finding much support for his health reform plan among the young? Perhaps those voting for President Obama were voting for the man but not his big government programs. Or if they thought they were suporting big governmetn they figured it would be intrusive with others, not themselves!