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By Robert Perino; Owasso
A couple of weeks ago President Obama made a statement in answer to a question he was asked. The question was something like, "Don't you think that making health care mandatory is like another tax on the people?" His answer was, "No, you have to buy car insurance and that's not considered an extra tax." No one challenged this statement. It is a false and misleading statement. First of all, auto insurance is regulated by the states, not the federal government. Does Obama want the states to handle health insurance? Probably not. Second, No state requires you to buy car insurance.
They require you to buy liability insurance to cover the other person if you have an accident in your vehicle. The state does not care if you have insurance on your car or the people in it. Third, liability insurance costs, on average, about $400 a year per vehicle. Mandatory health insurance for every person in your household will cost the average family in excess of $7,000 a year by Sen. Max Baucus's own figures, and that after a government rebate that won't start until 2013 at the earliest. How many people do you know that can afford to spend another $7,000 a year. Most of the families I know are having trouble paying the bills they have now. The question that should be asked by the media is not how much is mandatory health care going to cost the federal government, but how is the average family going to be able to pay the extra cost?
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