Come, Let’s Reason Together: Is It Ok to Mandate Having Health Insurance That Is Privatized?

You can’t require people to do something that in order for them to do it they must pay huge sums of money to greedy insurance companies that sell the service the very law is mandating. 

How do you support privatizing health or motor vehicle insurance.... can you really leave it up to private companies to provide the service that you have required people to have in order to drive or address their health? When those companies are about making money and at times drive up the cost of the service that affects drivers ability to submit to the law. 

This really baffles me that we can be cool as a country of rational people who’d allow this nonsense, unreasonable and dangerous modus Operandi that creates an opening for abuse and criminality. You see when you require or expect a particular behavior or compliance to a law that you have privatized, it begs the question whether the law is about safety or profits; it colludes and corrupts the process of law. 

You can’t tell  or mandate people to buy insurance that is sold by private individuals; it’s like telling people to buy cars that is sold by car manufacturers all but ensuring car sales. It’s like making a law that requires a service that is sold by private companies as if the law is working to support company sales and service. 

Insurance is a need and required good or service so why make it law and then provide the ability for capitalists to make money from that law at the expense of motorists who must be burdened by these capitalists to meet the law. 

Wouldn’t it be great if people were required to get consultant services or a service sold or offered by our businesses, for then we’d make a killing... as we’d be able to do what those other rich profiteers do whose services are mandated by law for people to have... what peace of mind. 

You know, if you’re gonna require people to get a service sold by private companies then why shouldn’t there be the corresponding scrutiny and government protections and controls to prevent abuse. Yet some want to leave health insurance up to the private insurance companies? Who are they? It has to be those whose profit from the arrangement between a law that supports a capitalistic service. 

Renaldo McKenzie is Creator and Host of The Neoliberal Round Podcast, which is available anywhere you get your stream, including Anchor.fm. Spotify, Apple Podcast, Amazon Music, Radio Public, Google Podcast, Podvine, the Audible, I-Heart Radio, the Alexa App, renaldocmckenzie.com, theneoliberal.com etc. Renaldo is also author of Neoliberalism, Globalization, Income Inequality, Poverty and Resistance available in all platforms, worldwide and was number one on Amazon in Deconstructivist History and Philosophy. Renaldo has a new book which will be released early next year entitled: Neoliberal Globalization Reconsidered. Renaldo is also a Doctoral Candidate at Georgetown University and a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and Jamaica Theological Seminary, where he is a Lecturer in Caribbean Thought. Renaldo is the President of The Neoliberal Corporation, a think tank, research, publishing, academic and digital creation company that provides writing, web services, search engine optimization, & other digital services.