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Originally Posted by Spiritsoar
You're correct. But the point is that no one is required absolutely to have auto insurance.
It relates to health care because some of the proposed 'health care reform' plans would require all people to purchase health insurance.
If I'm not mistaken, this is already the case in at least one state (Massachusetts), but I don't live there, so I don't know the particulars.
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I think you may have misinterpreted my point. I see the connection, but I don't see how it's a valid or meaningful one (hence, "in any meaningful way").
Publicly mandating that everyone must be insured is not a terrible thing. Publicly mandating that everyone must have private insurance, though, is the wrong way to do that. With out a cost effective government option, preferably geared to income, it ends up being a feeble attempt at reform which only serves to increase the private insurance companies' profit margins.
I'm not completely up to speed, though, so I don't know precisely what form such a mandate is currently taking, or even if it's still a part of the currently proposed reform. Anyone care to provide a link?