Free Riding Health Care

                A claim being made against the health care system that President Obama wishes to employ for the United States is that it is unconstitutional for everyone to be forced to get their own health care and pay for it. The issue with the health care market is the existence of free-riders, which are not as large of a problem in any other market. Some people will refuse to pay for any of their health care if it is offered to them for free, which will damage the market. Even if there is universal health care, where everyone gets coverage, the U.S. still wants people to pay for extra coverage that the U.S. government does not deem mandatory.

                In general, passing the current health care mandate could be a positive for the free market of the economy, because everyone will be involved, and it will hopefully be forced to thrive, and the only people who will be harmed are those who were not paying for their health insurance in the first place. If the mandate does not pass, the people who are harmed are the people who do pay for their insurance and do not free ride on the current state of the system, as well as the workers who lose compensation because of the free riders who are abusing the system.