On the radio, I heard a news report out of Massachusetts describing the state legislature’s latest attempts to control it citizens’ lives. Thanks to a new law, anybody without health insurance by July 1, 2007 will receive a fine.
The next time a cop pulls you over and asks for your license and proof of insurance, you may have to ask him which insurance. This is good news for insurance companies, bad news for you and me.
Not only does it give the government even more power of us, but imagine what it will do to insurance prices. If prices are high now, I can’t begin to think what they will be like when there is no choice but to buy insurance.
Massachusetts’ legislature used the argument that all cars must be insured, so it only makes sense that humans be insured. After all, we are more expensive to fix.
There are so many flaws in that logic my head spins. But for starters, how about nobody forces us to buy a car? If we can’t afford car insurance we can go without a car.
Don’t forget, skipping a few trips to the doctor does not cause financial damages to a victim. Getting in a car accident does. This law is just plain stupid.
I smell a Supreme Court case.
Andrew Snyder
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