Car insurance doesn’t pay for tires or oil while it could be argued that bad tires increase the risk of accident. However tires and oil are an inextricable requirements to owning a car.
This idea that health care should be paid for by someone else has always puzzled me. It’s the equivalent of food being “free.”
For the legitimately poor, there is definitely a role for government just as governments don’t let people starve to death, but for everyone else — its just wacky that the government ought to be involved at all beyond safety regulation. We went wrong when some groups started claiming health care as a right — nobody has a “right” to the labor of other people. In other words — I don’t have a right to make you produce something for me.
Health care costs have spiraled out of control because of the detachment of who is paying from who is receiving the service — much like higher education.
