Health insurance, for complicated economic reasons of adverse selection is not a market that can operate efficiently without government intervention. If it does, it will always price certain people out of the market.So what you might say...thats their problem. Well not so fast.....

This issue is worth the concern of all Americans. The uninsured create negative externalities, whereby their lack of effective health coverage directly harms the welfare of other people in society and it costs those of us paying for healthcare a hell of a lot of money! Their avoidance of health care, especially preventative care, eventually necessitates emergency care which is left to be paid by taxpayers; their poor health assists the spread of disease and illness to others; they divert medical resources from preventative care to the care of preventable illness and the cost of these illnesses are astronomical.

Healthcare is not like other goods where you can say so what?? You did not prepare so go die in a corner. It wont happen and then we all pay more.

I am not advocating socialized medicine but required healthcare insurance for all with some members of society getting help with their insurance premiums.