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So now we know. The Supreme Court will hear the various state lawsuits questioning the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act and, in particular, the part of the act calling for individual mandates. The question is whether the federal government is able to require its citizens to purchase health insurance.
The secondary issue is if the individual mandate portion of the bill falls, does also the rest of the act? If one part of the act is unconstitutional, does that destroy the entire legislation? Setting aside the constitutional question, the logic of the mandate is fairly simple. If the government can force health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions, include children in their parent's coverage until age 26, and eliminate lifetime reserves, what is the offset to these additional costs? The act's answer is to simply have more people in the pool to pay for the new benefits generated by these requirements.See the full content of this document
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Commentary: Mandate Logic
The Census Bureau tells us that of the almost 50 million Americans without ...
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