Question for those opposed to the mandate
There are many who are suggesting that a mandate to have health coverage is not constitutional.
The mandate is needed because if you remove pre-existing condition clauses without some other way of preventing anti-selection, people will only buy insurance when they are sick and then it stops being insurance.
But just because something is needed does not make it constitutional. So for those who question the constitutionality of coverage mandates I have to ask you this: What gives you the right to make me your unpaid insurer?
You may wonder why I am asking you that question. When you use your so called “liberty” to not buy insurance you are now putting all of your risk on me (someone who has insurance). When you go to the ER for an emergency and cannot pay, your costs get passed on to me.
So if it is constitutional for you to force me to pay for your healthcare, it must be constitutional for me to force you to pay for your fair share of it.