Healthcare is a catch-22. Insurance companies make money by aggregating healthy people along with sick ones so everything evens out. The problem? Healthy 20-somethings can't afford healthcare because they aren't paid enough, so they skip it. I know I can't. They wait until they're old enough to have health problems and have a salary job they can afford healthcare with.
Solution? Make it illegal to not have healthcare.
Thanks. Now I can't move out of my parent's house until I'm 29 and on salary.
Look, there are two rights at issue here. Do sick people have the right to healthcare? I don't think so. I think they shouldn't die of flu or tetanus or other things we can resolve for pennies, but basically, their right is to make their own decisions with their own resources.
But what about healthy people? In my mind someone who is healthy, takes care of themselves, and doesn't need healthcare has the right to be rewarded for that. They are, after all, the ones who are out there being productive members of society.
There are more uncovered 20-somethings in the healthy and don't need it demographic than in the unhealthy and can't afford it bracket.
