Here’s how Trump’s tax law is raising health insurance premiums

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(07-27-2018, 04:44 PM)PhilHos Wrote:  The constitution is all about what laws government is allowed to impose on its citizens with the goal of being free but not anarchic. Forcing citizens to have health insurance goes against what the consitution is all about.

The Constitution was designed as it was so that it could change. I believe — from reading the framer's opinions — that this was largely so that there could be flexibility without completely having to scrap the thing or radically change the government. 

Personally, I'm a minimalist kind of guy. I prefer as little government as we can get away with. But at the same time, when you have hundreds of millions of people with diversity in their incomes, backgrounds and social structure, you can't just throw something at the wall and see what sticks. Just because the Constitution didn't mention roads (it does say post roads, but not public roads), healthcare, civil rights, or a hundred other things doesn't mean that we don't have to deal with them. And because we have to deal with them, there needs to be some balance.

I don't think the government should be able to force anyone to buy healthcare. Unfortunately, that only leaves two options: a system where taxpayers get stuck paying for businesses to make obscene profits (what we have now) or a system where businesses are regulated by the government on what they can charge (socialist healthcare).