Health insurance is a must

People who decided not to buy health insurance eventually affect the lives of every American.

Regardless of the reasons, having so many uninsured individuals drives up the cost of goods when people get sick and cannot do their job.

Also when many people in a company choose not to purchase health insurance, it sends a message to the employer that health insurance may not be an important benefit which in-turn could cost other workers a loss of their health insurance benefit.

In addtion when healthy people choose not to be a part of their company's health insurance pool, it raises the costs for everyone else because the risk is spread through less people.

And, when people make such low wages that they cannot afford health insurance, the number of people eligible for Medicaid rises (which is paid by your tax dollars!).

For these reasons, many have encouraged the government to switch to a Universal Health Care System where the government would help manage health care.