degsme:

the true conservative:

mark14:

Yes pay for it yourself or we will tax you. Only a conservative would call having someone else pay it for you freedom.

What if I want to self-insure?

Insurance companies are required to have surety reserves.

Put up the surety reserve into an escrow acct

Oh wait, that will be MORE expensive in terms of Opportunity costs because you will have to put up a large enough bond to cover all possible covered medical expenses.

Or alternatively you can go to a bonding agency (like the government) and pay a monthly fee (a tax or insurance premium) to do the same thing... odd how it ends up being essentially one and the same.

So you have a choice - take the benefits of society and the costs and responsiblities associated with it. OR move to Somalia where that nasty thing called The Government just isn't around much.

YOU CHOSE.

I currently get my insurance through a not-for-profit sharing plan that would likely be disallowed under the House plan because of the exclusions we voluntarily agree to accept to keep our costs down.