Mandate is no problem if healthcare costs go down substantially.
Healthcare costs BEFORE OBAMACARE were killing the working class. So even if Obamacare was never passed, the healthcare system was still horse-crap.
Also, mandates have been in existence for over 7 decades, in the form emergency room healthcare. No one in this country dies on the street because they do not have health insurance.
When uninsured people receive healthcare, and can not pay the bills, the cost gets passed on to all others.
If everybody can buy cheap insurance, with mandates, costs come down for everybody, because people get treated in a timely manner, before the disease becomes more serious.
“If everybody can buy cheap insurance, with mandates, costs come down for everybody...”
My pastor pays $700/month for health insurance. He’s 60. My BIL retires next year, and they are looking at $1200/month for health insurance. I’m retired military, so my insurance is dirt cheap compared to most. But...in what sense are we better off with mandates?
BTW - met a guy yesterday who is paying $14,000/year in health insurance premiums. About the same as my sister is being told to expect. My sister and BIL are thinking about paying the fines instead and doing without. Her comment? “It has reached a point where if we die, we die...but we cannot afford insurance”.