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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCruz just explained the rationale for the individual mandate.
People can't wait until they get sick to get health insurance - they are mandated to get it now, in order to increase the risk pool.
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Cruz just explained the rationale for the individual mandate. (Original Post)
ZRT2209
Sep 2013
OP
Actually, ObamaCare requires insurance companies to take preexisting conditions.
NYC_SKP
Sep 2013
#3
One of the problems with the PPACA is the penalty for not having health care is too low...
PoliticAverse
Sep 2013
#4
MiniMe
(21,718 posts)1. Idiot, once you get sick, you can't get insurance for that problem
Try getting fire insurance for your house after it burns down. Or car insurance after the accident.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)3. Actually, ObamaCare requires insurance companies to take preexisting conditions.
So yeah, you could just not pay until you need it then you'd get the care you need.
Which would suck for everyone else, thus the mandate.
OffWithTheirHeads
(10,337 posts)2. All I can say is "please proceed".
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)4. One of the problems with the PPACA is the penalty for not having health care is too low...
($95 for a single person for the initial year) and thus doesn't provide much incentive for people
to get insurance if they aren't sick.