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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: ABX on December 30, 2013, 05:37:51 pm

Title: Howard Dean: Individual mandate in Obamacare wasn't necessary
Post by: ABX on December 30, 2013, 05:37:51 pm

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Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that the mandate in President Obama’s health care law stipulating that virtually all Americans must buy health insurance or pay a fine wasn’t necessary.

Mr. Dean said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that the number of younger, healthier people enrolling in Obamacare — who will theoretically broaden the risk pool of those in the insurance marketplace — “doesn’t really matter that much.”

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Title: Re: Howard Dean: Individual mandate in Obamacare wasn't necessary
Post by: GourmetDan on December 30, 2013, 05:44:49 pm

Depends on how fast you want to bankrupt the insurance cos and move to the single-payer gov't model...

Title: Re: Howard Dean: Individual mandate in Obamacare wasn't necessary
Post by: Rapunzel on December 30, 2013, 05:46:42 pm

I guess doctor Dean didn't bother to take an economics class in college.