Several states still enforce health insurance mandates with tax penalties, despite the federal penalty ending. California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont, and D.C. have active state ...

Policymakers often rationalize their support of government mandates that require the purchase of health insurance on the basis that it is not right for some to bear the cost of coverage while others, ...

An individual mandate is an important feature of many recent plans to achieve universal health insurance coverage in the United States, without radically changing the way most Americans get health ...

Healthcare experts have suggested nine alternatives to the reform law’s individual mandate to buy insurance, which is under intense opposition in the courts, Congress and the states, according to a ...

If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is eliminated, insurance coverage would drop, but individuals’ premiums would increase only slightly, according to a Rand ...