mandatory insurance

Mitt Romney, mandatory health insurance, & the phony free-rider justification 0
- May 25, 2011
“[I]f the individual mandate’s purpose is to prevent free riders from shifting the cost of their emergency care to others, all it should require is … insurance to cover a trip to the emergency room. Instead, both RomneyCare and ObamaCare require everyone to be covered for numerous benefits going far beyond emergency care.” – Jeff Jacoby
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Health care updates from Cato Institute 0
- May 23, 2011
The latest health care commentary by Cato Institute scholars on: Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, mandatory insurance as elitist, unconstitutional, and based on phony justification.
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Insurance company fined for selling illegal policies in Massachusetts 0
- May 18, 2011
From Healthcare Finance News, April 26 2011: According to the [Massachusetts] AG’s complaint, U.S. Life sold health insurance policies in Massachusetts that were not authorized for sale and did not cover health services required by Massachusetts law. The mandated services at issue included mental health, maternity healthcare, infertility care, pap test screening, mammography and preventive […]
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The Road to Socialized Medicine Is Paved With Preexisting Conditions – Part 3 0
- May 16, 2011
Yaron Brook & Don Watkins of the Ayn Rand Institute write: [W]ithout exception, the actual problems they point to are not caused by the market, but by government intervention–and the outcomes they denounce which are a product of the market are not really problems at all. Take the preexisting condition “crisis.” On the one hand, […]
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Summarizing the legal case against ObamaCare 0
- May 6, 2011
The Cato Institute has published a new white paper (22 pages) by its chairman Robert Levy: The Case Against President Obama’s Health Care Reform: A Primer for Nonlawyers. It summarizes why mandator insurance is unconstitutional.
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David Kopel: Why Obamacare mandate penalty can’t be a tax 0
- April 13, 2011
Writing in the Orange County Register, Independence Institute Research Director Dave Kopel explains why the penalty for not buying government-approved health plan cannot be a tax.
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