so you now you compare health care to car care? Sorry but if I don't care for my car, it died and I can either get new one or take public transportation. I don't care for my self I die. I think my health is more important than my car.

As for people using health insurance for stuff other than catastrophic health issues, I think health care costs have gone up alot since that days you refer to. Prescription medicine costs have gone up too. There is no way people in poverty can afford doctor visits, medicine and glasses and such by themselves.

So let me get this straight, instead of people(who can't afford to pay for doctor visits) going to their family doctor, you'd rather them go to the ER and clog that up some more???

btw, I did study history in school.