Document Type
Article
Abstract
Senator Hilary Rodham Clinton has recently put forth a plan in which individuals would be required to purchase health insurance. Her plan has been the target of intense criticism. Individual mandates would target the free-riders of health care and would likely improve the health of the uninsured. Shortcomings of the mandate are the difficulty of enforcement and the unfair burden placed on lower-middle income people. Careful examination of the evidence suggests that the U.S. should not impose individual mandates for health insurance.
Publication Date
Spring 2008
Journal Title
Major Themes in Economics
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
13
Last Page
34
Copyright
©2008 by Major Themes in Economics
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Schares, Sarah
(2008)
"Health Care Reform: An Examination of the Case for Individual Mandates,"
Major Themes in Economics, 10, 13-34.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/mtie/vol10/iss1/4