Okay, King O: We won’t call it a tax. We’ll call it a “government-mandated expense.”
But those of us who couldn’t afford to go to college and had to live by our wits when we were young know exactly what this is: a way of raising that first rung on the ladder toward economic stabiity.
When you do this, you make it harder and harder for people to get to the point where they can afford to buy insurance. People just fall off the ladder.
If you want to help the poor, then open more clinics, and lower the price of office visits for small things. In other words, do the opposite of what Obama wants to do by outlawing co-pays for preventative care. Let the working poor pay $15 to go in and get an infection or something like that taken care of. That gets them in the door, and if there’s something that needs to be taken care of, they may get some warning that they’re going to have to hit up their parents or friends for funds.
And there’s nothing wrong with doing “public health announcements” that describe how to stay healthy and suggest strategies for keeping one’s healthcare expenses down.
By all means, reduce health insurance costs: allow us to buy insurance across state lines, and enact tort reform, so that people stop paying malpractice bingo.
But to mandate that people get coverage, whether they can afford it or not, is crazy.
King O:
Hat tip: AllahPundit at Hot Air, who in turn uses another loaded term: “regressive.” And that is just the kind of, um, government-mandated expense that this is.
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… Last time I had someone use that “you looked it up, so I win” type thing, they were about 13…so was I, but still!