Originally Posted by Robbie

A lot of young people who don't particularly need it. I never had health insurance until I was 41 years old.

Neither myself...nor most people I knew who were young and healthy really ever went to the doctor.

From the age of 17 until 41 I only saw a doctor once...and that was to get a physical when I went into college (my grandfather insisted on it, and he paid for my college so I did it).

I played in bands all over the country and worked with at least 100 guys playing in rock bands over the years. We stayed on the road 7 days a week/52 weeks a year. If we got sick we just rode it out. If you had a high fever, you got up onstage underneath 120 1000 watt par light cans and you sweated that fever out. lol

But I guess the insurance companies are going to make a nice chunk of change off of insuring millions of young healthy people who don't really need anything but perhaps catastrophic insurance for things like a car accident.