Photo Credit: THE GIRLS OF MCN

Amy Alkon at Advice Goddess Blog makes the following point:

Medical Insurance Is Not Car Insurance

If you choose to drive a car, your state can demand that you have car insurance. You can also choose to walk, ride a bus, or ride a bike, and buy no insurance.

The Federal government was trying to make you buy health insurance simply because you exist.

In the wake of U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson's ruling yesterday that compelling people to buy health insurance is unconstitutional, defenders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (i.e., ObamaCare) are fond of pulling out car insurance mandates. If the state can force you to buy car insurance, the argument goes, how can it not be able to make you buy something so much more important, like health or medical insurance?

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"The act of driving is not a constitutional right, it's a privilege, and so we can impose conditions on the exercise of that privilege under the state's police power. Living is not a privilege, it's a right, and I can't impose a condition on the mere act of living, which is what the ObamaCare mandate does."

So when you hear the silly assertion that the state can make you get car insurance and therefore it can make you get health insurance, simply ask if the state can make you buy car insurance if you don't have a car. Obviously the answer is no. They can only make you buy car insurance if you want to buy a car. Likewise as silly as it sounds, they should only be able to make you buy health insurance if you want to buy health.

As for the photo at the top of this article, it just goes to show: not everyone should be covered by Obama-Care. And that's the naked truth.