GeorgeH wrote:
I know that the analogy with auto insurance has been used before, but it still applies. The idea of insurance is that your purchase covers the cost of those who need the funds for a covered event. Since I've never been able to predict an auto accident, I buy insurance, AND in most states drivers are required to buy insurance.
It's a bad analogy, although people keep using it. Car insurance is required if, and only if, on owns and registers a car to be driven on public roadways, and one does not self-insure. My grandparents had no car insurance, nor did my dad for years, nor I until I moved out of NYC. It was only when I finally bought a car that I was required to buy insurance.
There are many people that go without auto insurance. I bet Trump is one, and it wouldn't surprise me if Warren Buffet was one.
The mandate to buy health care insurance applies regardless of choice, which makes it different in kind, not merely degree, from auto insurance.