Cars or people: Which is important enough to insure?

 Judging from mandatory auto insurance laws you’d have to say cars were more important. Otherwise, why would their insurance be mandatory? There’s even pools created for policy owners whose driving records makes their insurance too expensive. These laws and high-risk pools have been around for decades.

Obviously, not so with health insurance. It’s been neither affordable nor mandatory. Until last night’s historic vote, that is.

Yet, some states want to insure that cars remain more important than the people that drive and pay for them. Take Idaho for instance. Idaho Bans Federal Health Care Reform. Their governor signed a measure that mandates their Attorney General sue the federal government against the provision that health insurance be mandatory.

No word on their thoughts about their long-standing laws that auto insurance be mandatory for car owners in Idaho.

Florida has mandatory car insurance, too. Florida's Attorney General thinks their cars are more important than their people, too: Florida AG McCollum threatens over mandatory health insurance.

35 other states are planning the same step. mandatory insurance for cars? YES! Mandatory health insurance for people...NO!

Cars or people: Which is important enough to insure? You insure what’s important...if you can afford it.

The positive side of this is that...well, at least residents know what's important, cars, and what's not, their healthcare. That's a start to making informed decisions.