how is Obamacare different from automobile insurance?
You draw a very good analogy. While insuring an auto is quite different from insuring your health, there is a common principle. Both Obamacare and auto insurance (assuming you drive) are mandatory with some exclusions [1]. While conservatives may not be protesting mandatory auto insurance, they should be considering its impacts as well since we have many years of experience. Alas, like the frog that fails to jump out of a pot of water that is slowly heated to boil, so we fail to perceive the impacts of greater central control. I will suggest how mandatory auto insurance has impacted us. 1) Obviously, insurance companies have benefited to the degree that more people have purchased auto insurance than would have otherwise. This same criticism is raised against Obamacare. I really don’t see how you can argue against the obvious interest that insurers have to penalize people who refuse to buy their products. 2) Because virtually every auto damaged through accident is covered by insurance p
