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You can't get rid of the individual mandate without completely destroying the whole law. It's the unpopular part of the law. But pretty much anything that work
by danielweber 10y ago
You can't get rid of the individual mandate without completely destroying the whole law.
It's the unpopular part of the law. But pretty much anything that works is going to have some unpopular component that needs to be swallowed in order for the whole thing to work.
When Republicans talk about getting rid of the individual mandate, it's because they are, in actuality, trying to kill the law. When Democrats talk about it, I really don't know what's going through their heads. Leftist wonks like Krugman or Klein keep on telling them exactly why it's needed.
- ende 10y agoSure, but not really what I meant. Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Adding public option and subtracting individual mandate would basically be a step towards having single payer with secondary private market. I don't see how it would be, unless by "subtracting individual mandate" you mean "replacing an individual mandate backed with a fee/tax/penalty for failure to comply with a universal tax, an option to select a private option with the tax refunded as a subsidy, and a default of using the public option if no private option is selected". Which, really, is retaining the individual mandate, but making it impossible to break rather than penalizing breaking it.