mistermack wrote:Yes, national insurance is compulsory.
Exactly. You are being forced to pay for other people's health and lifestyle choices without your consent.
I thought that that was so obvious, even idiots wouldn't need it stating.
Evidently it did because you keep insisting all the shit you get from the system is "free." It's not.
Motor insurance is compulsory in the US if you drive.
No, liability insurance to cover damages to others is required, but should not be. However, all I have to do to stop having to pay for such insurance is not drive. I guess all you have to do to stop being forced to pay for other people's health care is drop dead.
How awful. Do they send round jackbooted thugs for the premiums? You poor dears.
Eventually, yes. If I drive without the mandatory liability policy it's a misdemeanor criminal offense and if I resist being arrested forcefully enough you can bet the farm that the machine guns will eventually come out. But I'm not compelled to pay for that insurance, it's a free choice and I can not do so simply by not operating a motor vehicle on a public highway...or by operating someone else's motor vehicle who consents to paying for such insurance.
That's not the case with either the NHS or Obamacare.
In Britain, public liability insurance is compulsory for businesses that might have a liability to the public.
And their choice is to modify their business model so as to avoid that requirement.
It's a good thing. If people run a business that might cause you harm, they don't just say, ''I haven't got the money'' when you claim.
Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but that's what insurance is for. If you think you are at risk while engaging in some pursuit, business or recreational, then it behooves you to buy an insurance policy that will cover you against the perils involved in that activity. That is how insurance works, don't you see? It's designed so YOU get to assess your risks and exposures to liability and decide how much you want to cover. If you fail to cover yourself adequately, then you suffer the consequences of your poor judgment. On the other hand, if you do something that harms someone else, if they failed to cover themselves against that peril in their own insurance policy and you are "judgment proof" in that you have nothing of value they can seize under court order, then they get to suffer the consequences of their poor judgment.
Why should I be required to insure everyone else in society against some potential harm I might cause? If you want to be insured against my actions, then buy your own insurance policy and leave me out of it unless and until I harm you, and then you can sue me for damages.
It's all good stuff. But National Health insurance is the best value of all, because there's no middle man.
Wanna bet? Do you really think that every dime you have forcibly extracted from your wallet for NHS goes to health care...ANYBODY'S health care?
If you do, you're a fool.
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