Legal Commentary

Worrying About Mandates

By Big Tent Democrat

Josh Marshall writes:

The best argument I've heard from people who say the emerging bill isn't just insufficient but just bad law is this: If you're going to force people to buy coverage (mandates), you need to provide them an alternative to buying private sector health insurance to prevent them from getting gouged by the insurance companies. In the abstract that makes a lot of sense. And it even makes a decent amount of sense in the non-abstract, real world. [. . .] My point though is that if you are worried about mandates now (and I think that's a very legitimate worry) you should have been worried about them with a Public Option too.

(Emphasis supplied.) Heh. Apparently Josh missed that whole months long debate. Pretty sure I posted on it a few times. Pretty sure I saw other people do so too. But hey, we're not Very Serious People so . ..

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Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).