What we know and love isn't "insurance" in the conventional sense. (I've been waiting for months, if not years, for someone to point out the obvious.)
(Meanwhile Megan McArdle points out a crucial distinction between health insurance and, say, fire insurance. Both links via this post.)
Despite everything unsavory about the past few weeks of the Democratic campaign -- despite everything from the NAFTA pandering to the Rezko trial, and even the Iraq war rhetoric -- I'd still take Obama over Hillary specifically because a health insurance mandate is unnecessary and unjust.
(Maybe I could be persuaded otherwise if someone rolled out a dirt-cheap insurance program with (let's say) a $25K deductible, that covered only life-threatening injuries and illnesses.)
Posted by Matt Bruce at March 7, 2008 11:07 AM