http://caldems.com/2009/11/19/the-individual-mandate/ The official online presence of the Cal Berkeley Democrats. Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:52:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://caldems.com/2009/11/19/the-individual-mandate/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Robbie Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:39:01 +0000 http://caldems.com/?p=934#comment-127 I think the reason the individual mandate isn't popular is that many Republicans don't like the government making them get insurance and many Democrats think the government should guarantee health insurance as a right of citizenship, rather than requiring citizens to buy insurance. Basically, you have right wing free market folks and left wing Medicare-for-all folks. That leaves people like Max Baucus and Evan Bayh to champion the individual mandate, and centrists of that sort tend to prefer inaction to action as it pisses fewer people off in the short term. That doesn't leave much enthusiasm out there for the policy. I think the reason the individual mandate isn’t popular is that many Republicans don’t like the government making them get insurance and many Democrats think the government should guarantee health insurance as a right of citizenship, rather than requiring citizens to buy insurance. Basically, you have right wing free market folks and left wing Medicare-for-all folks. That leaves people like Max Baucus and Evan Bayh to champion the individual mandate, and centrists of that sort tend to prefer inaction to action as it pisses fewer people off in the short term. That doesn’t leave much enthusiasm out there for the policy.

]]> http://caldems.com/2009/11/19/the-individual-mandate/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Scott ffolliott Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:35 +0000 http://caldems.com/?p=934#comment-126 "E pluribus unum." said Romney, "Let's hear it for me." “E pluribus unum.” said Romney, “Let’s hear it for me.”

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