Sabotage judo: States can turn individual mandate repeal to their advantage
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With repeal of the ACA's individual mandate apparently imminent, health law scholar Nicholas Bagley urges states to mitigate the damage by...getting their own damn mandate: Adopting mandates at the state level would help stabilize insurance markets, thereby keeping premiums in check and forestalling coverage losses. It would also provide a welcome source of revenue: Some people will still prefer to pay a penalty than buy insurance. Plus, the states don’t need to stick with the precise terms of the federal mandate, which has been reviled (from different quarters) both for heavy-handedness and its ineffectuality. Stiffer state-level penalties would still be unpopular, but at least they’d work better.
Sabotage judo: States can turn individual mandate repeal to their advantage
Sabotage judo: States can turn individual…
Sabotage judo: States can turn individual mandate repeal to their advantage
With repeal of the ACA's individual mandate apparently imminent, health law scholar Nicholas Bagley urges states to mitigate the damage by...getting their own damn mandate: Adopting mandates at the state level would help stabilize insurance markets, thereby keeping premiums in check and forestalling coverage losses. It would also provide a welcome source of revenue: Some people will still prefer to pay a penalty than buy insurance. Plus, the states don’t need to stick with the precise terms of the federal mandate, which has been reviled (from different quarters) both for heavy-handedness and its ineffectuality. Stiffer state-level penalties would still be unpopular, but at least they’d work better.