Health Affairs and RWJF: An examination of the employer mandate and how proposed legislation would expand job-based health insurance
Eliminating Individual Mandate Would Come With Strings
The 26 states challenging President Obama’s healthcare law sought to link the law’s Medicaid expansion to its individual insurance mandate in a brief filed with the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
As Barack Obama battled Hillary Rodham Clinton over health care during the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008, he was adamant about one thing: Americans, he insisted, should not be required to buy health insurance.
What happens if the health law’s individual mandate — the provision that requires almost all Americans to obtain health insurance or face a penalty — is overturned by the Supreme Court?
An appeals court dealt a blow to President Barack Obama’s healthcare law on Friday, leaving a mark on constitutional law, the healthcare industry, U.S. politics and U.S. states.
Influential conservative judge supports health insurance mandate
After two days of debate, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates Monday voted by two-thirds (326-165) to renew its support for the individual mandate
The Obama administration argues that the states suing over the constitutionality of the health care reform law would risk leaving uninsured Americans “on the street after a car accident”
Last week, the GAO delivered a report outlining alternatives to the mandate suggested by more than 40 health care and insurance industry experts.
Health care reform: Understanding the details of the ‘individual mandate’
Individual mandate: Is it for everyone?
Half of U.S. adults still oppose the “individual mandate” clause in the new health care reform law that requires all Americans not already insured to purchase health insurance, while only 22 percent support it, a new Harris Interactive/HealthDay poll finds.
The biggest fear is that without mandatory health insurance there will be no incentive for people to buy health insurance until after they’re sick, and then the system won’t work – some take issue with this
Government figures show that 733 applicants, mainly employers and union-affiliated insurers, received an exemption from a requirement that puts their plans on the hook for up to $750,000 in eligible medical bills for each covered worker
Vulnerable Democrat Looks For Alternatives To Health Insurance Mandate
Nearly 4 million Americans will have to pay a penalty if they fail to get health insurance when that element of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law kicks in
Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance
Conservative lawmakers in about half the states are forging ahead with constitutional amendments to ban government health insurance mandates
The viability of reform depends on attracting lower-risk individuals. Strengthening the mandate would increase the likelihood that these individuals will purchase coverage
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