Should the Government Mandate Health Insurance?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/06/17/Perspectives_on_Health_Care_Reform_from_the_US_Cong...

By comparing health care to income tax and car insurance, Congressman Michael C. Burgess (R-TX) argues against a federally mandated public option. He asks, "What if instead of mandates, we looked at building programs that people actually wanted?"

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Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA), each offer their opinion on how health care ought to be reformed and how health care will be reformed, as well as the challenges reform faces in Congress.

Afterward, John Reichard, Editor of CQ HealthBeat, moderates a joint question and answer session. - Cato Institute

After spending nearly three decades practicing medicine in North Texas, Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D., was first elected to Congress in 2002, and re-elected in 2004, 2006, and most recently in 2008.

Dr. Burgess serves on the prestigious House Energy and Commerce Committee and three of its subcommittees: Health Care, Energy & Environment, and Oversight & Investigations. He is also a member of the bicameral Joint Economic Committee, and Dr. Burgess recently founded and is Chairman of the Congressional Health Care Caucus.
John Reichard - John Reichard is current editor of Congressional Quarterly's HealthBeat. Washington HealthBeat was founded in 2001 by John Reichard, whose 20-year career in Washington specialty publications included editing stints with McGraw-Hill, Thomson and other organizations.

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[Mastikator]

Yay tyranny :/

[freesk8]

Limited liability is not necessary for a free market. In fact, according to the Austrian School of Economics (and others) limited liability is not compatible with free market principles. Corporate personhood is an invention of government, not the free market.

Murders are a tiny minority of crimes and would be drastically reduced without the government-created and foolish drug war. Most other crimes are simple assault or property crimes.

But I'm a minarchist. I'll keep the police.

[YamaKazoo]

I dont thinks its possible for government to mandate health insurance because health insurance isnt a person.

[turgeo2004]

oh and america is no longer a republic, it is a socialist police state, so time for a political revolution, we must take back our country from the Euro trash marxists that have taken it over, personally i think we should round up every damn marxist and send them back to europe or china (depending on where they originally came from) in body bags!

oh and all you marxists and enemies of liberty remember

JESUS LOVES YOU!

BUT I DONT!

BYE BYE!

[turgeo2004]

also serbia must take back kosovo and i will support russia and serbia in the next balkin war against the nato pigs. because islam is evil and i will support serbia s bid to kick out every damn muslim that is pissing on christian lands in the balkins! I will not be tolerant to islam, Serbia and kosovo are Orthadox christian owned and controlled forever more, as a christian myself, i will back up fellow christians around the world in this holy war that was started by islam.

[turgeo2004]

personally i have already decided that im gonna bust a cap in the ass of the first cop that trys to give me a ticket for not having health insurance. UP YOURS D.C. and i am also in a income tax revolt, im not longer filing or paying. COME GET ME! and i will pay you IN HOT COPPER! the 7.62x39mm kind, if you know what i mean (DEATH to the NWO, and the POLICE STATE) i am the kalishnakov cowboy, i am plotting to overthrow the us (politicall revolution) and i approve this message!

[cuzzinpaulie]

the mandate is not a side issue. it is a direct assault on our freedom. we should not summit to this type of slavery. i wont summit they can send my ass to prison

[MeandProgressive]

Actually its situational application of the law in favor of Corporate Executives such as Glen Renwick, CEO Progressive. In Texas Automobile Insurance is mandated for everyone but there is no "mandate" that Companies such as Progressive have to honor their bogus policies. When I filed a formal complaint against Progressive, the Texas State Board of Insurance Commission refused to review it because I was only a passenger in a car hit by a large truck. What a sweetheart deal for Progressive

[AK47orM16]

here is the health-care plan for you: If your over 65, it is mandatory every 5 years for you and your doctor to discuss how you want to end the pain (end your life). If you have good health-care u will have to get the socialized type instead...WHAT THE HELL! If you don't have health insurance they still wont let you pay for any surgeries or anything.... the Klan is not to happy right now

[AK47orM16]

the entire damn population is roadkill in the governments eyes....for the government, the only thing we are good for is putting money in there pocket and being there slaves

[MeandProgressive]

Progressive thinks people are STUPID because they are utilizing some dumb caricature to sell worthless insurance policies. There is nothing funny about death and an insurance company such as Progressive that REFUSES to honor their policy. Progressive is nothing more than a Ponzi Scheme in which the Corporate Executives get rich and leave injured policy holders bogus insurance policies which are not worth the paper they are written on. See Progressive Insurance Has Treated Me as Roadkill

[proffesor02]

Is it an option to NOT have any insurance? If people are required to have some type of insurance (whether private or public) then it isn't a strawman. If insurance is optional (ie. you don't have to have insurance) then it is a strawman.