Sherry Glied talks about health insurance mandates is in today’s New England Journal of Medicine.
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Perhaps the most important benefit of mandates is symbolic. By mandating the purchase of health insurance, governments signal to their citizens that coverage is critical. For many uninsured people as well as their families, communities, and elected representatives, this public commitment to coverage may lead to a reassessment of priorities. Although making mandates functional will be demanding, just passing a mandate may serve an important purpose by moving health insurance higher on the agendas of all these constituencies.
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Actually, the most significant consequence of a mandate is that it will eventually and inevitably lead to revolution.
“Benefit of Mandates” there is nothing symbolic on a law that fines it’s residents on not being able to afford insurance.I think Sherry Glied has this backwards.My question is why doesn’t the government feel the need to “signal the insurance industry?”The uninsured are being discriminated against for not being wealthy,the state has criminalized being uninsured.