Biden vows to bring back Obamacare individual mandate if elected
by Ellie Bufkin
| July 05, 2019 08:33 AM
2020 Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden vowed to bring back the individual mandate for uninsured Americans as part of his healthcare initiative in a CNN interview that aired Friday. The mandate, which forced Americans to pay a tax penalty if they spent even part of the year without health insurance, was repealed in 2017 as part of President Trump's tax bill.
Biden said he would reinstall the unpopular penalty as a way to ensure healthcare for all. He further stated that "Medicare for all" would be available if people wanted but private health insurance would not be eliminated, saying "If you provide an option for anybody who in fact wants to buy into 'Medicare for all,' they can buy in. They buy in and they can do it. But if they like their employer-based insurance, which a lot of unions broke their neck to get ... they shouldn't have to give it up."
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