Interesting op-ed in the LA Times yesterday from one of the architects of the Clinton and Obama health plans. Jacob Hacker, a man who recommended both candidiates include a mandate that all individuals purchase health insurance, also says that the mandate’s not all that
necessary to achieve real reform. That flies in the face of the mandate-backers (and insurance
companies) who insist that health reform must require everyone to buy insurance or
all those uninsured free-loaders won’t get covered. The real barrier to Americans obtaining health care is cost. Until someone comes up with a decent argument for how insurance will be made affordable – and switching everything over to electronic medical records just doesn’t cut it – it’s unthinkable to force everyone to buy it.
Mandate not so mandatory
Carmen Balber
Consumer Watchdog executive director Carmen Balber has been with the organization for nearly two decades. She spent four years directing the group’s Washington, D.C. office where she advocated for key health insurance market reforms that were ultimately enacted into law as part of the Affordable Care Act.
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