For the record, I am not a fan of either being mandated, It's just something that never made sense to me, and no one seems to be able to give me a good answer on this. When Obama rolled out Romney-care nationwide, you were mandated to have health insurance, and people understandably got upset. But when I would point out that car insurance is also mandatory, people on both sides of the aisle just shrug like it's no big thing.
I know this is a bit off topic, but for all my petty gripes about this place, GA.WIN is the last political place on the internet I can ask a question and get an answer from an actual human being.
If you have a loan on your car you have to have full coverage to protect the bank, if not you can just have liability which means you are covered in case you damage someone else’s property or injure/kill someone but you get nothing for the loss of your property. Uninsured may choose to just not pay your damages, I do not see that these are even remotely similar. It’s like people using the argument “requiring masks is no different than requiring shoes” . Yeah, very different. You don’t have to purchase a car, you can rely on others and public transport if you don’t want to purchase insurance. Have you ever been hit by someone uninsured? I lived in Az, it happened quite often with illegals. Our family car got totaled when my mom got hit by uninsured drunk.