Did you really just equate healthcare insurance to buying a book from Amazon?
I've got a newsflash for you... if you get screwed by Amazon.com it doesn't mean you die.

Can someone please explain to me why Republicans only value life while it's still in the womb?!?

As for your other answers... Competition?... Consumers?

Believe me, I like a good fairy tale as much as the next person and I really wish there were unicorns, pots of leprechaun gold, princesses, ogre, and talking donkeys, but unfortunately we have to live in the real world where, in the absence of regulation, competition means seeing who can race to the bottom quickest (and China is winning that race in the retail market), and where big corporations have "risk managers" who's job it is to add up the numbers and see if it's more profitable to kill a few consumers and just pay the lawsuits or recall/fix dangerous products.

As far as I'm concerned, those old, recycled, and historically false answers show only that the insurance industry side really doesn't have any viable answers to the questions I posed.
As a matter of fact, those answers only prove that the questions are very real concerns.

Quote Originally Posted by FlashLackey
Care to elaborate on the "despicable levels" associated with this simple fact?
As a practicing Christian perhaps you should read your Bible again, or go to biblegateway.com and do some keyword searches for "stranger" and "poor".
You may gain a little understanding about basic morality, compassion, and how your religion and savior direct you to treat strangers and the poor.
Even us atheists can agree with a lot of the teachings and philosophy of Jesus and what is the morally correct way to treat another human being even if we don't buy into the magical fairy tale bits.

The rabid-rightwing hatred and desire to cause harm (or allow harm) to your fellow man based on their citizenship is stomach-turning in itself even without the religious hypocrisy.

Besides that, the fact that CK would use an outright lie (or even a convoluted twisting of the facts) as a basis to deny healthcare for our own uninsured citizens is equaly despicable.