Guns required in SD ! Whoo hoo

[xracer390]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02 ... ealth-law/

[sochr000]

So, if requiring me to buy health insurance is potentially in violation of the constitution, how is it that in MN I have to buy auto insurance?

[xd ED]

So, if requiring me to buy health insurance is potentially in violation of the constitution, how is it that in MN I have to buy auto insurance?

You don't. It's a condition to own / drive a motor vehicle. No vehicle= no insurance.
And if the government can force you to buy health insurance, they can force you to buy anything.

[mnglocker]

So, if requiring me to buy health insurance is potentially in violation of the constitution, how is it that in MN I have to buy auto insurance?

You don't have to drive though. You have no choice on existing however.

[sochr000]

So, if requiring me to buy health insurance is potentially in violation of the constitution, how is it that in MN I have to buy auto insurance?

You don't have to drive though. You have no choice on existing however.

This is Bemidji, we don't have public transportation up here... and I am not walking home from work tonight... (In all seriousness, I understand your point)

[Heffay]

You can bike.

Yes, even in the winter.

[sochr000]

Don't you bring reason and fact into this... this is the internet!

[tman]

You can bike.

Yes, even in the winter.

I don't advise it:

BICYCLIST STRUCK BY CAR

A 47-year-old Bemidji man was taken by ambulance to North Country Regional Hospital after he was struck by a vehicle while bicycling Sunday evening.

[nyffman]

Individual mandate? I got your individual mandate right here!

[Heffay]

You can bike.

Yes, even in the winter.

I don't advise it:

BICYCLIST STRUCK BY CAR

Biking isn't dangerous. Accidents happen, but that doesn't mean he was participating in a dangerous activity.

[Amithus]

So, if requiring me to buy health insurance is potentially in violation of the constitution, how is it that in MN I have to buy auto insurance?

I don't get why to this day the healthcare law is referenced to the auto insurance requirement.

1. The individual STATES require you to purchase car insurance if you operate a motor vehicle on the roads. Not the federal government. BIG difference there. States can make such laws. In no where in our US Constitution does it say that the federal government can force you to purchase anything.

2. The healthcare act states that if you don't have health insurance you will pay a fine, if you don't own a motor vehicle, you don't need to buy auto insurance, whether or not you actually CHOOSE to drive is up to you, as stated above, pure existence is the factor in the healthcare law. Even though there is no public transportation where you live, you don't, or should I say, you aren't forced to purchase a car and car insurance. Healthcare law mandates you purchase healthcare, unless you are a big union person that owns the government, then you get an exemption.

[mattxd]

you don't have to buy insurance to drive a car, you just have to prove you have the ability to cover the liability mandates. So for most people that means buying insurance, since they don't have or are willing to risk that amount of their own money.

[GeekyGunman]

Obviously the simple solution is to allow ambulance drivers to check for medical insurance before throwing them in the back.
(We can just leave them on the street if not.)

That way the uninsured don't have any impact on the healthcare system.

[xd ED]

Obviously the simple solution is to allow ambulance drivers to check for medical insurance before throwing them in the back.
(We can just leave them on the street if not.)

That way the uninsured don't have any impact on the healthcare system.

A lot of people never have health insurance until they get employer supplied healthcare. Until I was almost 30, I never had insurance, paid cash for misc. medical expenses, and never once asked for, or was thrown out of an ambulance. Now, nearly 30 years later, I wish I had all the premium money payed by me and my employers, verses the pocket change I have spent on health care- the greatest amount- a few thousand dollars on Chiropractic care, of which none was covered by any 'insurance'.
On of the many obfuscations about Obama care is the tax on younger people to pay the medical expenses of the elderly....Sound familiar?

[Pred]

Obviously the simple solution is to allow ambulance drivers to check for medical insurance before throwing them in the back.
(We can just leave them on the street if not.)

That way the uninsured don't have any impact on the healthcare system.

And interrogate bank accounts and make sure they don't have a million bucks stashed in their pocket.