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Hit-And-Run Reveals Hypocrisy Of Democrats’ ‘Universal’ Health Care Plans

The fact that Democrats care so little about uncompensated auto insurance claims means I won’t take lessons from them on universal coverage as a way to ‘solve’ the problem of uncompensated health care.

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The next time Democrats regain political power in Washington, they will inevitably attempt to enact yet another major expansion of government health care. To support their efforts, they will, among other things, claim that uncompensated care to uninsured individuals raises insurance premiums for those Americans with health coverage. For that matter, they will make much the same arguments to undo the supposed “cuts” to Medicaid included in last year’s budget reconciliation measure.

But that line of argument falls apart in the face of evidence like this:

Uninsured and/or illegal alien motorists impose costs — including higher auto insurance premiums — on American citizens. Seeing as Democrats care so much about uncompensated care raising health insurance premiums, their plan to lower auto insurance premiums involves… what exactly?

Hit-and-Run Collision

Recently, I spent some time in New England on a late-summer road trip. As I was driving back to my hotel on Labor Day, traffic on a city street suddenly stopped ahead of me. I slammed on my brakes, came to a stop, and promptly heard a crunch. A motorcyclist driving behind me had failed to stop in time, plowing into the rear of my vehicle.

I put my car in park and opened the door to the........

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