The Obamacare Mandate Isn’t Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance After All

August 12, 2014

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By John C. Goodman

August 12, 2014

Also published in Forbes.com Tue. August 12, 2014.

The Obama administration told the Supreme Court two years ago that without a requirement to buy insurance, the uninsured will wait to insure until they get sick. But guess what? Almost none of the uninsured are affected by the mandate anyway.

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Also published in Forbes.com Tue. August 12, 2014.

John Goodman
is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, author of Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis and President of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research.

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