Piers Morgan Still Comparing Auto Liability Insurance to ObamaCare Mandate
On the night after seeming oblivious when Michele Bachmann explained the difference in principle between pushing all Americans to purchase health insurance versus pushing only the portion of Americans who make the choice to drive to buy car insurance, CNN host Piers Morgan again brought up the comparison on Tuesday's Piers Morgan Tonight as he hosted liberal actor Billy Baldwin as a guest.
As Morgan mentioned that he had raised the subject previously with Bachmann, he failed to give any acknowledgement that the Minnesota Republican had articulated an argument as to the difference between the two as he again pushed the notion that there is little distinction in a goverment mandate regarding one type of insurance and the other.
On Tuesday's show, Morgan posed:
What do you make of the health care debate that's been raging? I had Michele Bachmann on last night, and I put it to her that, in terms of ideology of the argument here, what is the difference really for most Americans between being made to have car insurance and being made to have health insurance?
On Monday's show, the CNN host did not seem to be paying attention when he followed up his question on insurance by asking Rep. Bachmann a question she had already answered:
PIERS MORGAN: Do you have car insurance?
REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MN): Yes, I do.
MORGAN: Who told you to?
BACHMANN: I have car insurance because I have an investment in my car and I want to make sure that I can hold onto that investment. But car insurance is a very different thing from health insurance because no one is forced to buy a car if they don't want to, but here, in the case of ObamaCare, every American is forced to buy a health insurance policy just because they breathe.
MORGAN: Yeah, but hang on a minute. Let me jump in. You just hit the nail on the head. You talked about buying health insurance. You have to buy car insurance. If you want to drive a car in America, you have to buy insurance or you will be driving illegally, you will be fined, and if you keep defying it, you'll be put in jail.
What is the difference ideologically to a Republican like you that is so opposed to this, what is the difference between Americans being forced by law to have insurance to drive a car and being forced by law to have insurance for their health?
BACHMANN: Well, I said it in the beginning of my remarks. No one is forced to buy a car. You don't have to buy a car. But if you buy a car, you need to be responsible and buy health [MEANT "CAR"] insurance.
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A better example for Piers' would be travel insurance.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 6:16pm.
As in get on the next available flight to the UK, jerk... I would personally pick up the insurance.
We wouldn't need government involvement
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 6:17pm.
If I could buy health insurance like car insurance.
If they were the same, my health insurance would only be for major casualties and not flat tires.
If they were the same, I could buy health insurance from a company several states away and tailor the policy to what I wanted, and pay accordingly to the coverage I desired.
If they were the same then drivers that had no license, or registration and didn't live here wouldn't be able to bring a totaled car in for free repairs.
If they were the same, I could have the freedom to choose from several repair shops instead of being forced into one that had no competition.
If they were the same then I would be rewarded with lower rates from my own behavior of maintaining good health.
So if his theory was true, I wouldn't mind it because there would be no government involvement.
Phil, if health insurance
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 8:13pm.
Phil, if health insurance were like car insurance, you would only have to buy health insurance to cover any illness you inflict on others.
The funny thing is that the left thinks...
Submitted by paratisi on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 6:43pm.
it is being smart and intellectual by not listening to anyone who doesn't just go with their flow. This is why I have no problem using their un-intellectual tactics against them. It just drives them completely off their childish rockers, when they finally catch on to what's going on. So in honor of Piers and the rest of the little minds out there, I only have this to say about that...
ObamaTax is ObamaTax is ObamaTax is ObamaTax is ObamaTax is ObamaTax and if you don't agree with the American Patriotic opinion that, it is ObamaTax, then you're a Racist, Homophobe, Hitler loving Fascist who Hates America and Americans. To quote Gutfeld.
This is going to be a very long 4 months for the ObamaTax team trying to re-elect ObamaTax. The more you can act as a "Truth Squad" at sights like Youtube, Yahoo, CNN, ABC, etc., you personally weaken the lefts ability to intimidate or attack the independents and the undecideds. We act as the lightning rods for the hatred by the left and consequently shine a light on the pettiness and selfishness of that same bitter, angry, hateful left.
We are also going to have the lefts political operatives trolling through this and other conservative sites. When you recognize them, please, do not be upset. Simply let that be your siren song to go after and engage the "Goon Squads" on your terms, in their blogs, on their sites, taking up their limited manpower on you, instead of trying to intimidate or lye to the independents or undecideds.
Not to tell anyone what to do, I am simply stating what I and a few others plan on doing. You can join us in defending our country against ObamaTax or not, as Americans who love their country, I trust that you will do what you believe is in the best interest of the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"! Bless you all and a Happy and Safe 4th of July.
My car insurance is a balloon
Submitted by Mr. Mike on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 7:07pm.
My car insurance is a balloon payment every six months. And what I pay every six months for car insurance is basically what I pay EVERY MONTH for my health insurance.
Seriously Piers, just stop it. Hell, I wish health insurance was a lot more like car insurance.
Repeated stupidity
Submitted by GregE on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 7:12pm.
They'll keep using this incorrect analogy forever. They don't even see the flaw. Statism is blinding.
The only common link is the "crash"
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:10am.
Auto insurance covers liability in automobile crashes. Obamacare will lead to a crash of the American health care system.
That's classic Galv
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:28am.
I may have to steal it.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Steal it and add this
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 12:39pm.
Just saw this on Drudge.
Lawyers have already drafted 13,000 pages of regulations for new Obama Tax Law
And that's started from something that was just 2700 pages. Yeah, "just" when compared to 13,000 pages.
Sheer insanity!!!!!
Be sure to check the link at the bottom about the IRS agents in relation to this.
The fact that this is being allowed to continue tells me that people are not going to rise up against this, that they are going to accept this as a country. This country is totally screwed. Yeah, I don't see any hope in this mess.
-Jon
Comparisons no longer matter.
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 7:28pm.
If the Congress passes legislation, or Obama issues an edict, that all Americans, legal or illegal, have to buy auto insurance, whether they own a car or not, under penalty/tax of law, then by Allah, it's the law of the land and you better purchase automobile insurance.
There is no commerce clause, there is no good and welfare clause, there is no good and proper clause, and there is no good and plenty clause. The only clause that matters now is: If the feds tell you to do something, and there is a tax penalty if you don't, you had better damn well do it.
Thank you John Roberts.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
If anything
Submitted by Shreve on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 7:28pm.
it's like paying taxes for police and fire protection, I may never need to use them, but I still have to pay them.
Except those are there for
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 8:13pm.
Except those are there for protection of property and if you don't own property you don't pay property taxes so you likely are not paying for those things. Which is a lot like car insurance and nothing like obamatax.
Piers Morgan, formerly of Britain's Got Talent
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 8:07pm.
The Peter Principle in action.
Confused by a Republican congresswoman …
Submitted by JeffC... on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 8:11pm.
… so let's have a chat with one of the dumber Baldwin brothers on the difference between insurance that you only purchase if you own and drive a car and it is required to protect others versus insurance that the government demands you buy under threat of financial penalty because you exist.
What's next for the dimBrit--an argument about quantitative easing with some of the Spice Girls?
Incorrigible liberals
Submitted by metaphorsbwithu on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 10:45pm.
The problem with correcting a liberal is that the facts don't matter. What's important to them is simply the effect of their argument. If they can get someone to agree with them then they have accomplished their purpose.
I have for years corrected liberals on things they can see are wrong and it simply doesn't matter. For example, the infamous made-up quote about Sinclair Lewis describing fascism coming through someone covered with the flag and carrying a Bible. Or the bogus "banned-books" list supposedly drawn up by Sarah Palin or the fake "I can see Russia from my porch" Palin quote.
You can literally show them the facts and prove them wrong and they'll ignore you and repeat them again and again ... simply because they work.
I couldn't live like that.
I have no problem using that same...
Submitted by paratisi on Wed, 07/04/2012 - 10:59pm.
tactic against them though. Even more so if you have an audience.
Not recognizing a liberals argument or statement is something that takes them a while to figure out as well. They're so busy trying to ignore what you say, so they can shoot out some other talking point.
It's really fun to watch when they finally figure out what's going on. Apoplectic anger, they start to spew all manor of inanities. It's just a blast and worthy of a big bucket of popcorn. :0)
You couldn't live like that? Death before dishonor--more than
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 3:41am.
just an empty phrase.
Fortunately we libs, being unburdened by the customary moral constraints, are untroubled by such weighty concerns. On the other hand, a nearby community still reels from the shock of a cluster suicide involving five conservative students enrolled at a local junior college. It appears the young lads were devastated to learn the Hannity talking points they had been dutifully regurgitating for weeks proved to be unadulterated horsesh!t.
Standing in a circle beneath giant posters of iconic heroes of the Right--Coulter, Limbaugh, Savage, and "Wide Stance" Craig--they commenced to pummel each other into oblivion with "Two by Fours of Truth" specially designed by NewsBusters' own Scuba Dude, their battered remains belying the fact they most surely succumbed while feeling much, much better about themselves.
Jer
Liability
Submitted by TxVet on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 6:20am.
The main thing wrong with trying to compare the two is that the only car insurance the goverment forces you to buy is Liability Insurance. They make you buy it to protect other drivers from you if you are at fault in an accident. It doesn't help you at all in an accident. Also, if you have a car loan, your bank will make you get Full Coverage to protect their property that you are driving.
Liability
Submitted by TxVet on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 6:21am.
The main thing wrong with trying to compare the two is that the only car insurance the goverment forces you to buy is Liability Insurance. They make you buy it to protect other drivers from you if you are at fault in an accident. It doesn't help you at all in an accident. Also, if you have a car loan, your bank will make you get Full Coverage to protect their property that you are driving.
good grief not this arguement again.
Submitted by right of way on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 9:54am.
How would piers feel if everyone had to buy car insurance, even if they don't drive or own a car?
Is it The Affordable
Submitted by billb on Thu, 07/05/2012 - 11:32am.
Is it The Affordable Healthcare law or The Affordable Health Insurance Law? Liberals are the absolute masters at confusing THEIR constituents. The Scotus allowed an insurance mandate NOT a healthcare mandate! Done honestly, those who don't pay their healthcare BILL, should be dealt with accordingly. This way your dealing with a much smaller part of the population. But what fun is that? By making it an INSURANCE mandate Obama was able to ensnare all of the country and therefore be able to control all of us.
Surely you don't expect me to explain this to Morgan! I can't believe he's from the country that gave us the Spitfire!