Mandate to purchase health insurance
Critics of the health care reform are apprehensive about the proposed individual mandate requiring all American to purchase health insurance or pay a fine of at least 2 percent of their income to the government. These critics are arguing because they think Americans will be locked into purchasing a product that has the potential to become ever more expensive especially if the final outcome does not have a government run insurance plan to complete with private insurance companies. The chairman of the liberal Democracy for America stated that his group would like to see the individual mandate stripped. There have been complaints from the private insurance industry about the mandate as well. They are concerned that the penalty for failing to purchase insurance is too mild and that young healthy people will choose to pay a small tax penalty rather than purchase insurance. Do you agree? Will people pay a fine rather than purchase health insurance?
