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Insurance mandates prove useless.(YOUR LIFE)(Brief article)
Can the problem of the growing number of people without health insurance be solved by passing a law mandating its purchase? A budding bipartisan movement believes it can, as evidenced by the recent reform signed into law in Massachusetts and endorsed by organizations on both the right and left. Yet, a report from the National Center for Policy Analysis, Dallas, Tex., cautions that experience with mandates in automobile insurance shows that the practice probably will not work with health insurance, either.
"Remarkably, there is little difference in uninsurance rates between auto and health care, even though driving is voluntary and enforcement is relatively easy," points out Greg Scandlen, author of the report and president of Consumers for Health Care Choices. "Thinking you can force people to buy insurance just because the legislature mandates it is naive at best."
Scandlen notes that all but three states mandate auto insurance, while ...
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- Magazine article from: Review of Business Paul, Robert J. Townsend, James B. December 22, 1992 700+ words
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