health insurance with lousy CARE is another......and NEITHER is a RIGHT. Health insurance has always been an option, and MANY choose NOT to buy it or buy catastrophic insurance only, which was always offered by insurance companies.
It's NOT the government's responsibility to force people to comply with regard to what they purchase for themselves, Bob....and to add insult to injury, force them to purchase insurance that they don't NEED or will ever USE (such as birth control for 60 yr olds or people who will never have children for whatever reasons they have). That is NOT 'taking care of its citizens'.....it's just another aspect of 'share the wealth' by forcing some to pay for other people's insurance, and again to add insult to injury, subsidize some to pay their premiums, AND cover every person living here, legal or not. It's total BS by liberals as usual.
CHOICE for US citizens is the ONLY option....some will choose to purchase the insurance coverage they want or can afford, some will have great plans provided for them by their employers, and some will choose to NOT by insurance at all and take the risk of losing everything to pay a hospital bill, just as insurance companies take the risk that you won't die tomorrow after taking out a million dollar life insurance policy.
And, yes, we should have never bailed out the banks....we didn't during the Great Depression and the economy recovered naturally, just as it did in 1920 when it 'collapsed'. We would have recovered naturally again without government interference in 2008 as well. History has proven that. Reagan bailed out the auto industry in 1980+ and shouldn't have done that either because none of those companies learned a damned thing and did it to themselves all over again 20 years later. They also should have been allowed to fail....especially since they got bailed out TWICE (TARP and BO a year later) in a horrific deal made by the BO administration of allowing GM especially to shut down as the existing company and start up a new company under the same name, but causing MILLIONS of small portfolio investors to lose their original stock rendering them useless because they weren't allowed to transfer that stock to the 'new' company. BO had no problem with 'every man for himself' in that deal and failed them all miserably, just as the banks were bailed out because of the housing crap, but the homeOWNERS lost everything. He should have given the money straight to those people instead of the banks...….