http://bit.ly/7oca4y - - - Could this be the sound of younger voters waking up to their exploitation by the Democrats? The Sacramento Bee reports that people across the political spectrum have begun to resist the idea of a federal mandate to buy insurance, sensing correctly that they would in effect subsidize the health care of others more than themselves: ... The efforts of Rock the Vote seem to have failed here. Of course, Sertic is actually studying economics, which means he understands what insurance does — and why it usually doesn’t make sense for young, healthy people to buy comprehensive policies. Insurance pools risk, and has the insured pay into a pool to cover all the expenses of all the members. Those who use the system less get less value than those who use the system more. Young, healthy people don’t use the system much at all — which means that most of their premiums will gain them no benefit at all.
For younger people, an inexpensive hospitalization policy makes the most sense, with the occasional doctor’s visit handled with cash. A full physical would normally cost only $200 or less, which makes spending $300 a month on a comprehensive policy (the Minnesota average for 2007) an obvious waste, even if someone got a full physical every quarter. It doesn’t take a postgraduate degree in economics to figure that out — and to figure out why politicians need to use the power of federal government to coerce younger people into economic slavery to the vast majority of the country that need their risk subsidized. Will the youth of America wake up to the shackles that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have prepared for them? Perhaps they have already done so. - - - The unconstitutionality of the provision is so obvious, even Geoff noticed it. It's insidious intent, the motive for its complete flaunting of constitutional safeguards against tyrannical government, takes a bit more brain power to see, but not much more. A perfect storm of near total idiocy, and complete corruption, and a disastrous lack of any checks and balances is draining the treasury and the private sector at a clip never before seen in our history, and will engulf the next two generations unless, somehow, it's put to an immediate stop. - Publius -- "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of them. Its preservation, therefore ought in no case that can be avoided, to be committed to the guardianship of any but those whose situation will uniformly beget an immediate interest in the faithful and vigilant performance of the trust." [Federalist Papers #59] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
