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The Risk Of Mandates, Health Insurance


The rationale most often offered for accepting the senate bill is that on balance its good measures outweigh the bad. One claim advantage of the senate bill is that 30 million or so of the roughly 40 million uninsured will now be allowed to purchase insurance policies from private insurance companies, presumably including many that had previously been disallowed to buy insurance by those very some private companies. The same can be said of the touted great achievement that now forbids private for profit insurance companies from stopping to insure people who become ill. Again only under the most tortured and distorted view of permissiveness can forbidding this practice be seen as an accomplishments and having them aped over The matter is whether the government can mandate people to buy private health insurance from private entities whose profits they do not want to support. This matter is part legal in nature but not exclusively so. So all input from those with relevant legal knowledge in this matter will help to clarify the question. The question is aggravated by the fact that measures to assure fair competition in the provision of services have deliberately been omitted by Congress for the sole purpose for enhancing the profits of these private insurance companies.