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Republicans whats the difference between being forced to buy health insurance and car insurance?

If it is unconstitutional to force some to buy to health insurance how is it constitutional to force people to buy car insurance??

Public Comments

1. You dont have to buy a car do you. The states are the ones that require car insurance not Washington DC and you only have to do it if you travel on public roads.
2. Unemployment insurance is a better example.
3. You're not being forced to buy a car and participate in mandatory insurance. Also, it's a State issue, as health insurance should be.
4. Because first off not every state requires car owners to own insurance. Secondly if you dont own a car you dont need car insurance.....with this health insurance bill you dont have an option, either you buy it or get fined.
5. Driving is optional, smart one.
6. I am not even a republican but you only are forced to get car insurance if you choose to drive on public roads. The health insurance mandate is also at a federal level. You are a sad, pathetic idiot if you can't tell the difference.
7. It is a privelege to drive. And the insurance you buy for your car is to protect the other people on the road, not you personally. I suppose you will tell me that it is a privelege to live?
8. You only have to buy car insurance to cover the other person. The rest is common sense and in legalese and liberalism common sense is a foreign subject and not adhered to.
9. You aren't forced to buy a car. And you're not forced to buy car incurance if you don't own a car. a car is a luxury, and a dangerous one at that.
10. You'll get a lot of "driving is optional!" comments, which unwittingly points out health care is NOT optional and therefore the nation should provide it for everyone. Thanks Republicans for making the point for us!!
11. Laws don't force you to buy car insurance if you don't own a car. Its like comparing apples to oranges. Also, laws require you to buy car insurance not to protect yourself and your car, they are there to protect other people and their cars from you. It is only required to buy liability insurance, or here in VA, you can pay an uninsured motorist fee if you prefer.
12. car insurance is liability to protect the person and property in an accident health insurance is paying the government because the prez overspent and is still over spending
13. They are two completely different things. First, you can choose to drive and/or purchase an automobile. Somehow, I don't think you can choose whether or not you are born? The sad thing is our legislators are floating the same argument, as well as also comparing this to seatbelt laws. The problem is - those laws are enforced by states, not by the feds. Also remember that beyond mandating coverage - which is tyranny - the government also gets to determine whether someone's employer-provided (or independently purchased) insurance is "appropriate." Does that really sound like a good idea to you?
14. I don't have to pay for the car insurance of other people.
15. I am left wing liberal to the core....yet this is one topic where conservatives and I agree, to a certain extent. 1. If I do not want to buy car insurance...I have a choice not to drive a car. 2. I cannot choose to not use my body. If the Government wants to put a gun to my head and say "buy health insurance" they should have given me an option. I WILL NOT purchase health insurance from a private insurer, they are greedy, unethical and criminal organizations that will look for every opportunity to rip me off to increase their profits. Give me a damn OPTION...as in, give me the public option choice to buy insurance from the Government, that I will gladly do. But I will NEVER buy insurance from the Al Capone Private Insurance Companies...NEVER.
16. You don't have to buy car insurance on yourself, just others that you might injure. At no time, or place, does government force you to buy full coverage insurance to protect your own car or injuries. Perhaps your financier makes it mandatory to get full coverage, but that's not government.