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To: Sam who wrote (134209)	3/23/2010 10:04:49 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 542967

Off the top of my head on the less liberty side: Choice of providers. Choice in type, content, and price of policy. Available treatments and other health products. And higher taxes, as Mankiw mentioned. Someone who doesn't want insurance will be "forced" to get it or pay a fine (doesn't auto insurance work like this in most if not all states?) This comparison is made frequently. The only auto insurance you are required to carry is liability, which protects others. You aren't required to insure against damage to your own car. If the auto insurance logic were applied to health coverage, you might reasonably be required to carry insurance for vaccinations against communicable diseases (and to actually get them)... <g> 2. Insurance companies will be "forced" to cover people with pre-existing conditions, and they will be "coerced" into not dropping people who get sick. [However, it isn't clear to me that their rates will be capped--the giant gift to insurance companies.]</i. I don't think this one belongs on the list. This isn't about individual liberty. Unless of course you're among those who think that liberty extends to corporations as the Supreme Court claimed for freedom of speech. I suspect you're not. <g>

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