If I do not want to buy car insurance, I do not have to. Choice.

If I do not want to buy health insurance, very soon, I will have to. No choice.

I am comprehensively pro-choice. Am I the only one?

To Mike:

No one forces people to get ill. All insurance, whether auto or health, is protection from loss.

You have only stated part of the [admittedly imperfect] solution. Much of the reform bill addresses the things that make insurance companies jerks. Rescission, for example. Denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions. Arbitrary rate hikes. Denial of benefits. You have chosen, like many of the opposition, to focus solely on the mandate while ignoring the dozens of other aspects.

You may be interested to know that the Affordable Care Act is almost an exact duplicate of the Republican health care reform plan of 1993. See: http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/February/23/GOP-1993-health-reform-bill.aspx

All of that aside, you are free to exercise your personal freedom not to seek medical care and/or continue making your own health care decisions should you become ill.

It is not like a car insurance mandate. No one is forcing me to drive. Please do not make that comparison anymore.

Problem: Insurance companies act like jerks
Democratic solution: Force everyone* to buy the insurance companies’ crappy products.

*Democratic party can choose whom to exempt

Do Democrats feel that my personal freedom as a human being a greater threat to society than insurance company greed?

Why aren’t we all forced (by the IRS) to carry private unemployment insurance, just in case we ever lose our jobs? Is that coming in 2011?

If you knew anything about liberty…we would all be so much safer and happier (and healthier).