Response To Dennis Cooper’s Recent Article: IS FORCING CITIZENS TO BUY HEALTH CARE INSURANCE THE AMERICAN WAY?

I hope Mr. Cooper will write an article saying that forcing Americans to buy automobile liability insurance should be illegal.

True, I can avoid such insurance by not driving, but the government has no right to force me to buy such insurance as a condition of driving.

From my experience working at the Florida Keys Memorial Hospital in the late ‘70s, I believe the following:  no, you should not HAVE to buy insurance, but then, by law, you get NO medical treatment of any kind, no matter what the emergency, except provided by Good Samaritans.

It sickened me that Monroe County taxpayers had to pay for people with no insurance.  One poor, indigent woman cost the FKMH $300,000 a year keeping her alive in a quadriplegic state!  With no insurance pool behind her, she should have been put out in the parking lot to die.

Cruel?  Well, the alternative is taxing people who never knew her, FORCING them to pay for her care.

Kinda like the Affordable Care Act.

Herbert Walker
Muncie, Indiana