Thoughts on national health care

The idea of nationally mandated health care isn’t very appealing to many Americans.

By not giving Americans a choice of whether or not they can buy health insurance, Obamacare goes against one of America’s core values, freedom. Forty million Americans do not have health insurance because for most of them, they can’t afford it. So it doesn’t seem fair to force them to buy health insurance.

But for all the Americans who do have health insurance, I cannot find one logical reason to why you would want to stop paying for health insurance. Why would you be against a law saying that you have to buy something that you know you are going to buy regardless if there is a law or not?

For those who cannot afford health insurance, it will be easier to pay for it if Obamacare is determined constitutional. One place where mandatory health insurance has worked and made insurance more affordable for everyone is Massachusetts, which helped encourage Obama to sign the national health care bill.

The Massachusetts bill was signed into law by governor Mitt Romney, who is against Obama and nationally mandated health care.

Jeremy Doll

Mundelein