The National Individual Health Insurance Mandate

Hastings Center Report 40 (5):8-9 (2010)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the nation's first comprehensive health care reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Within weeks, twenty states filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of its most politically charged feature—an individual purchase mandate. By 2014, the bill requires most individuals to have health insurance. With certain exceptions (pertaining to income level and religious objections), individuals without qualifying coverage will pay an annual tax penalty. If anything, the tax penalty is too low compared with the cost of insurance, so it may not provide sufficient incentive for healthy individuals to purchase insurance. But it remains controversial because it compels people to purchase coverage they choose not to have, raising the question whether Congress can lawfully and ethically require individuals to contract with, and transfer money to, a private party.

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,593

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

What Is Left of Charity Care after Health Reform?Jessica Wilen Berg - 2010 - Hastings Center Report 40 (4):12-13.
The Individual Mandate: Implications for Public Health Law.Wendy E. Parmet - 2011 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (3):401-413.
The Sausage-Making of Insurance Reform.Mark A. Hall - 2011 - Hastings Center Report 41 (1):9-10.

Analytics

Added to PP
2010-09-29

Downloads
48 (#293,064)

6 months
1 (#1,040,386)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Citations of this work

The Individual Mandate: Implications for Public Health Law.Wendy E. Parmet - 2011 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (3):401-413.
The Individual Mandate: Implications for Public Health Law.Wendy E. Parmet - 2011 - Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 39 (3):401-413.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references