And why require people to have auto insurance?

I've often felt that just as people are required to have auto insurance in our society in order to drive, everyone should be required to have health insurance to breathe. It works that way in most industrialized countries in the world. But a new initiative would amend the Arizona constitution to prohibit the state from ever mandating that people buy health insurance, or buy certain types of health insurance. As I sat last night in a soup and salad restaurant noticing America's obesity epidemic (I know some might consider that an ironic place to notice America's obesity epidemic, but it's amazing how unhealthy salad becomes when you load it with ranch dressing or end it with an all-you-can-eat ice cream bar), I realized that a major part of why other societies (Canada, Australia and New Zealand, western Europe) have national health care and we don't is our rugged individualism. Whoever is responsible for paying for our health care is going to try to keep the costs down, whether it is private HMOs or the government. And if government pays for our health care, the fear is that next they will tell us we can't smoke or eat fast food. And that's just down right un-American!