| All the President’s Mandates: Compulsory Health Insurance Is a Government Takeover
Cannon, Michael F.
Cato Institute, Briefing Papers 114, September 28, 2009, online edition, 16p
"The most hazardous health reform measure before Congress is not the so-called “public option,” but proposals to make health insurance compulsory via an individual or employer mandate. Compulsory health insurance could require nearly 100 million Americans to switch to a more expensive health plan and would therefore violate President Barack Obama’s pledge to let people keep their current health insurance. In particular, the legislation before Congress could eliminate many or all health savings account plans. Making health insurance compulsory would also spark an unnecessary fight over abortion and would enable government to ration care to those with private health insurance."
Michael F. Cannon is director of Health Policy Studies at the Cato Institute and coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.
Go to the paper at:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/bp/bp114.pdf
C20/06-09. Posted October 19, 2009
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