The latest SPIN on Health Care

The latest SPIN on Health Care is that everyone must have coverage. Just like auto-insurance if you drive a car. How is that working out for our nation of drivers today?

President Obama was pressed by ABC's "This Week" about people calling Health Reform a tax increase. His response was predictable and the follow-up we all should have gotten an answer to was "How well are auto-insurance requirements working out?" But ABC gave the President a pass and allowed him to build his case and move on...

A few things I take an issue with here in this comparison:

1. Employers don't provide us with low-cost auto insurance. Does this mean that Obama wants employers to stop offering insurance and rely on us individually to be responsible for that? I have to say based on reports thus far, YES he does. Employers will offer less and less in the way of funded health insurance and it will fall more on us as individual if this bill passes.

2. In the many states that "REQUIRE" auto-insurance be carried, there are a number (a big number) of people who get around that and don't carry insurance and drive anyway. (Canceled policies, lapses in payment, or some other issue) How is our Health Reform going to apply any kind of rules to that?

If you try to make Health Insurance JUST like Car Insurance, then what happens when an un-insured goes to the doctor? Do they get a ticket? Do they lose their right to go to the doctor?

I have had first hand (bumper-to-bumper) experience with a driver in a state with mandated auto-insurance participate in an accident, be at fault, not have insurance and the NET result is my insurance premiums went up and I am the one who has to pay all the bills. I don't see this analogy working out well for Health Care if the Media really took a close look at the talking points...

OK, it is not a TAX... It is a cost we will all be required to pay, the NET result is less money in our pocket and lots of people skimming the system until they get caught. Then what happens? Perhaps a few media outlets could spent some time on that scenario before falling in love with the bill...