Opinion | The Individual Mandate Is Here to Stay

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Opinion: The logic of American health care still favors the individual mandate, not single payer or an employer mandate, writes Alan S. Blinder

Believe it or not, America may be debating ObamaCare yet again. “Repealing but not replacing”—a terrible idea, you may remember—has come bouncing back like a bad penny. This time the effort is judicial rather than legislative, but it will run up against the same wall: The logic of American health care still pushes in the directions President Obama chose.

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act 5-4 in 2012 because Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the court’s liberals. But the grounds were...

 

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ACA failed when opting out to pay a tax was added severely reducing the base of insured. In turn ACA failed as insurance companies divided up the country and increased premiums. All of which reduced the number of individuals covered and who can afford to use their indurance

That thing that got repealed is here to stay. Right, ok.

Shilling for private for-profit insurance companies I see. Universal single payer or STFU.

Obamacare is dead. Cures will change the world. And that means everything has to change. Healthcare w/be missing some patients, so they will have to bring focus to mental health issues. The Perfect Back

Yea, I love paying an extra tax.

individual man date healthier than single payer

If that's the case, lower the deductible, so people can afford it

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