Blogs: Health Insurance Mandate

@phillip84109 that had nothing to do with section 1233. free market rules will never apply to insurance because insurance companies want to AVOID many customers. competition works when companies are trying to get as many customers as ...

The Missouri Hospitals Association also declared opposition to Proposition C. MHA President and CEO Herb B. Kuhn stated that without an insurance mandate, fewer individuals will buy health insurance, which will cause the government to ...

On the one hand, people are exempt from the individual mandate (that requires them to either get a health insurance set up or pay a penalty) if they need a religious objection. Such groups include members of shared care organizations, ...

Federal lawmakers say the health insurance mandate and creation of health insurance exchanges should help the estimated 31 million Americans currently lacking health insurance coverage to obtain it and force those who currently choose ...

On “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos and President Obama have a colorful discussion over Obama's health care reform proposal. Stephanopoulos takes issue with a mandate that obligates Americans to buy health insurance, or risk being ...

Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, said consumers could face higher health insurance premiums and an onerous mandate to get health insurance whether they want it or not. Whitman campaign spokeswoman Sarah Pompei called the ...

The debate is whether the constitution guarantees health insurance, and therefore, is the government, in fact, supposed to mandate it. For other people, providing health insurance Georgia policies for uninsured residents is a more ...

“NO individual mandate to buy health insurance!” Jan. 31, 2008. “I think we can anticipate that there would be people potentially who are not covered & are actually HURT if they have ***a mandate imposed*** on them.” In June 2009… ...

Small to medium-sized companies that offer health insurance to their employees would be disproportionately affected by this new mandate, because large companies are not subject to such insurance mandates. ...

Because the in-state insurance companies, such as Blue Cross, lobby hard and heavy (and with a lot of $$$$) to prevent such competition. They are making a lot of money because they've gotten the state governments to mandate some ...