The Affordable Transmission Care Act

While my fried was driving through Illinois and very far from home, his car broke down. It turned out that his transmission broke and his car was towed to the Aamco. As it turned out, the local Aamco was the only place he could get his transmission fixed. The cost to fix his car was far more than he could afford, and he had to call friends and relatives and credit card companies in order to get enough money together to fix his car.

This was a clear example that transmissions do not fall under free-market principles. It was completely unfair that his transmission broke during a time in his life when he couldn't afford it. There were no competitors to take his car. The Aamco was able to charge him a couple of thousand dollars for something that was a need, not a want.

It seems obvious to me that everyone, whether they own a car or not, should be forced to purchase Transmission Insurance. In fact, perhaps we should simply go to a single payer system that the Federal Government controls. The IRS should be able to fine/tax/confiscate private property, imprison and be empowered to kill anyone that tried to avoid paying into such a system.

You may think this is a joke, but the argument is exactly the same for health care. If health care is a right based upon some kind of radical egalitarian false premise, then the same false premise must be applied to transmission care. Of course the Political Left will balk at such an argument, but inconsistency is the sign of a failed argument. But then again, perhaps they would agree and desire government control that too!