Could you argue that, with UPMC owning the hospital and also offering the best insurance plan for the area, the mandate increases the number of people buying th

Could you argue that, with UPMC owning the hospital and also offering the best insurance plan for the area, the mandate increases the number of people buying their plan who otherwise would not? > evil government insurance mandate Don't try to gin us up. Honestly, I'd prefer single-payer. The stop-gap insurance mandate is far from optimal, which is why a lot of us don't like it - not because we think it's "evil."