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The car insurance comparison is perfect, and I can't believe it got sidetracked into a "right to travel" discussion.

Here's the comparison: no one is required to purchase liability insurance (or prove financial responsibility as an alternative), unless they want to do one specific thing: drive a motor vehicle on a public road. You can own a car. You can drive a car. You can do neither. You can travel by foot, bicycle, or horseback. You can hire a ride, or beg rides from strangers. None of that requires you to purchase insurance unless you drive a motor vehicle on a public road.

But, what the government has just enacted in the equivalent of requiring you to purchase liability insurance even if you don't own a car, even if you walk everywhere you go, even if you never leave your own house. You must purchase health insurance even if you don't believe in modern medical care and never go to doctors or hospitals. Merely as a condition of existing, you must pay. This is effectively a per capita tax.

The amazing thing is that the liberal left is loudly cheering that the Democrat majority just made it mandatory that all Americans purchase products from Big Business insurance companies.