Obama: Health Care is like Auto Insurance

ABC News: Obama: “What I think is appropriate is that in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don't, you're subject to some penalty, that in this situation, if you have the ability to buy insurance, it's affordable and you choose not to do so, forcing you and me and everybody else to subsidize you, you know, there's a thousand dollar hidden tax that families all across America are -- are burdened by because of the fact that people don't have health insurance, you know, there's nothing wrong with a penalty.”

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Well there is one important flaw in your all too common analogy... PEOPLE AREN'T REQUIRED TO BUY CARS, BUT THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE ALIVE.

Buying a car is choice. Taking the bus is a choice. Car pooling is a choice. Have one car in your family rather than 3 cars is a choice.

BEING ALIVE IS NOT A CHOICE!

And requiring people to have health insurance is an infringement on the basic freedoms of the Constitution. The federal government does not get to control your heath! Where are the pro-choice people on this? Are you telling me that the government doesn't get a say when it comes to killing unborn babies, but when it comes to your entire physical health they are supposed to dictate it all??