A Health Insurance Mandate and Corporate Monopoly
By AdminRequiring every American to own health insurance is tough medicine. A mandate to own health insurance can feel like a tax; it can be characterized as government overreach, and unless the subsidies are generous enough, it will feel like health care reform is putting the hammer to the middle class. And depending on which poll you look at, 50% to 70% of Americans oppose a mandate.
Nevertheless, a mandate is the key to creating successful health care reform. Without a mandate for every American to have health insurance, health care reform will fail. Ultimately, the polling data on a mandate doesn’t matter; international experience tells us that people will warm to a mandate over time and will certainly not oppose it once they feel the positive impact it has on all of our health insurance coverage… more
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