Reply #12: I've seen several studies that show preventative health care increase lifespan... [View All]

[Ozymanithrax]

by 5 to 20 years. The benefits of health care are real.

Forcing someone to buy health care and providing preventive health care will add to their lives. Health problems found early are less expensive to deal with. If caught late, when someone must go to the emergency room or die, they are far more expensive or even fatal. Those are real benefits.

Then there are the people who do not have health care because they simply can not afford it. The bill will subsidize the poor and make something available that they simply can not have.

Yes, making them buy health care is helping them because it provides real benefits.