For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act’s mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn’t, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it. Even with the mandate, the ACA is likely to cause widespread and unnecessary disruption that will drive up the cost of insurance for the very people that the law is supposed to help.
via The individual mandate won’t save Obamacare – Health – AEI.
