You Own Your Health, It’s Not Owed To You

So explain this to me- what about someone that exercises daily, only eats organic food, is incredibly healthy in all aspects of their life, gets cancer? And what happens if they can't afford health care because they were laid off at work, have 3 kids to support? Are you saying they should die because they can't afford millions in alternative treatments when the chemo gives out?

It's not always up to the person- sorry. It's just not and if you think so you are looking at it from a one sided point of view.

Thank you for your reply. You bring up some excellent points that need to be discussed.
So let's first start off by agreeing that there is a clear distinction between health care and health insurance.

In your example the person did indeed own the care of their own health and then a catastrophic event occured. He/she would have bought insurance for such an event to cover the costs of treatment of cancer. He/she didn't actually need coverage for daily care of their health because they took care of themselves. They only needed coverage for catastrophic events which is exactly what health insurance is intended for.

Now you're person could not afford the insurance because:

- Government regulated that people could not buy health insurance, a product, across state lines.
- Government regulated that insurance companies have an exemption from anti trust laws that no other product or service from any other industry has.
- Government refused to regulate on tort reform, which exponentially increased defensive medicine that accounts for between 9% to 25% of the total spend on health insurance in America.

These are just a few of many stupid, not smart, regulations in which government has been destructive.

I believe through TRUE health insurance reform, which I have written about extensively on my blog, people can have the choice and freedom to afford insurance. What is currently proposed by this Administration and Congress has nothing to do with health insurance reform. It never has.

Once again, it's about government exerting it's control.