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What Texas traffic enforcement can teach the national healthcare debate about "individual mandates"

To veer slightly off topic for a moment, I wanted to record an observation about the national health insurance debate presently going on in Congress, and in particular the move to create an "individual mandate" for the uninsured requiring them to purchase health insurance.Texas and many other states have already tried "individual mandates" for auto insurance, and the results have been abysmal: About 25% of Texas drivers have no auto insurance (roughly the same percentage of people that currently lack health insurance).When Texans are ticketed for no insurance, they face steep fines which, rather than encouraging compliance with the law, frequently sink the uninsured even further into a financial hole and make it less likely they'll be able to afford insurance...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on June 18, 2009 (boomark / email).