Mandates

Repost: The Health Insurance Mandate Mistake

Individual Mandate Was a Republican Idea

The Democratic National Committee, pushing back against criticism of the individual mandate provision in the recently passed health care bill, cites Republican sources for the idea of an individual

Ruling Against Insurance Mandates

A federal judge in Virginia has ruled against the provision of Obama-care requiring all Americans to purchase health insurance.

Health Reform Advocates Do Not Fear Judge's Ruling

Ezra Klein of the Washington Post ran an editorial about the recent ruling in Virginia striking down the individual mandate (find it

The Myth of Young Invincibles

The individual mandate, a part of Obama-care recently struck down by a federal judge in Virginia, was designed to force young, healthy uninsured people to buy health insurance once each state has a

Can Congress Make You Buy Broccoli?

The New England Journal of Medicine published an opinion piece about the constitutionality of Obama-Care just before Christmas (find it

Whither the Individual Mandate?

The Nation
August 13, 2011
John Nichols
The individual mandate was always a bad idea. Instead of recognizing that

Mandate Madness Moves Supreme

A Huge Unfunded Mandate

That's what Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has called the proposed health reform package now under discussion in Washington DC (find the Washington Post story