If we don’t buy health insurance, we’ll all pay

Last October, USA Today published an article featuring an uninsured artist from Iowa City who was suing the federal government over the health care reform mandate that one must buy health insurance. He feels that it should be his choice whether to purchase such coverage or not. The government should not be able to tell him to do so.

Good stuff, who doesn't like choices?

Unfortunately, few people make it through life without a major medical event of some kind.

If one exercises choice and then gets sick or injured, he or she will go to the nearest emergency room and get treated or patched up. If they cannot pay, you and I will pay for this care, through higher insurance premiums or through higher taxes. We will not have a choice; we will pay.

So, should this artist have a choice to shift his medical costs to us? No. Keep “Obamacare.”

Tim O'Brien

Fayette