<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Yes, you're supposed to buy car insurance and a license if you drive a car. As you state, that's not mandatory as nobody is making you drive. You still have an option to not drive.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">From what I understand, it's liability car insurance you're supposed to have so that other people are insured if you get in an accident. Whether you want to insure yourself or your vehicle is an option.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Bike insurance would presumably be to protect yourself, not necesarily the endangered public, but maybe you're thinking liability insurance. Personally, I wouldn't want that to be a mandate. I believe you're supposed to license your bike if you live in Moscow.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">I was more interested in something everybody is mandated to buy as everyone will need health care at some point. So everyone will need to be insured. Is there another analogy?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">If you don't have health insurance under the law if it's passed, will you be denied treatment </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Are health care providers obligated to report non-insured patients?</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Garrett Clevenger</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">--- On <b>Thu, 3/18/10, Wayne Price <i><bear@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">From: Wayne Price <bear@moscow.com></p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Otter fights health care with "sue the feds" law</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">To: "Garrett Clevenger" <garrettmc@verizon.net></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 10:53 AM</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Garrett,</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">You asked: "Can you think of anything else the government requires its citizens to buy?" </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Car Insurance! And it's not mandatory for everyone that operates a vehicle, just motor vehicles.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Based on all the discussions on the board about cars/trucks vs bicycles, don't you think it would be a good idea for bicycle</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">operators to be insured too? IF they want to share the roads at are paid for by gas taxes, shouldn't they at least be insured?</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">I've seen a lot of discussion about what "rights" bicycle operators have, yet I haven't seen any discussion of their responsibilities.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">And what about the cost of various licenses? How about a bicycle license? </p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Just throwing that out for discussion.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Arial">On Mar 18, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Garrett Clevenger wrote:</p>
<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Courier">Can you think of anything else the government requires its citizens to buy?</p><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier"><br></font></div></td></tr></table>