On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 15:08:15 -0800, kontiki wrote
(in article ):

C J Campbell wrote:
Now comes Arnold who wants to force everyone in California to buy
health
insurance, even if the state has to garnishee their wages and put them in a
high risk insurance pool. I would like to see how that works out for the
millions of retired folks, families living on minimum wage, illegal aliens,
homeless street people, uninsured vacationers and business persons from
other
states, and just plain poor people living in California. Maybe Arnold plans
to cover them with the proceeds from his next movie. Or maybe he will
'terminate' them.


People are required to have automobile insurance on their cars and
no one bitches about that. When it comes to paying for their own
medical care I guess they think someone else should pay for it.

Apparently so. Since California hospitals are not allowed to refuse medical
care on the basis of whether the patient can pay, especially.

No one is required to drive a car. Plenty of people, even in California,
manage to live without an automobile. They don't have to have automobile
insurance.

Actually, plenty of people gripe about mandatory automobile insurance.

People who are too poor to buy auto insurance either do without (and drive
anyway -- so what has the law accomplished?) or they obey the law and don't
drive, probably making them less productive and less able to get a better
paying job.

What I want to see is the reality check when California discovers that person
making $7.50 an hour might not be able to pay $1300 a month for health
insurance for himself and his family, even if they take all of his wages away
from him.

Perhaps, if California wants everyone to have the finest health care
available at any price, it should be prepared to face up to the real cost of
doing that instead of passing the buck to the insurance companies and the
uninsurable.

The reason I cannot get health insurance in Washington is because my premiums
have to cover all those who are too poor or who are unwilling to buy
insurance or pay for their own care. My premiums even have to cover those who
move into the state with pre-existing conditions and who go to work for
government or big business who have subsidized (by me) premiums. Insurance
companies cannot deal with mandated coverage with no premiums to pay for it,
so they have all left the state. Really, the whole mess here is a thinly
disguised plan to benefit Democrat constituencies such as unions at taxpayer
expense while depriving Republican constituencies such as the self-employed
of basic services like health care. And I don't see things changing with our
current government. More than likely, they will figure out how to make sure
those who contribute to Democrat causes and issues will be allowed to have
food while the self-employed and other groups deemed to be too Republican
will be lined up and shot.

--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor