HOW DOES THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE WORK AGAIN???

[kjackson227]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/how_does_the_individual_mandat.html

[flamingdem]

1. If people would wrap their heads around these FACTS a lot of arguments would end

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Luckily, consumers aren't usually that cynical, and the experience of places such as Massachusetts suggests that individual mandates encourage people to buy insurance even when it might make sense for people to simply pay the penalty. But for all the furor over the individual mandate, the danger in the bill is much more that it is too weak and too good a deal than that it is too strong and too punitive a tax.

[kjackson227]

2. Yep, reading and comprehending is a beautiful thing :)