At the expense of the public

Eric Pianka

April 2, 2012

The state of Texas makes us buy insurance and fines us if we drive without it. How is that so different from the federal government ordering us to buy health insurance? Republicans will argue that auto insurance is necessary to protect the public, but a similar argument can be made for health insurance. People who don’t have health insurance use emergency rooms at the expense of the public at large.

Eric Pianka
Integrative biology professor

The Daily Texan

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The Daily Texan

At the expense of the public

The Daily Texan