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Will Americans support the individual mandate?
- Source :
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Health affairs (Project Hope) [Health Aff (Millwood)] 2009 May-Jun; Vol. 28 (3), pp. w501-9. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Apr 21. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- 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 care and coverage. Using national public opinion data, we find that on its own, an individual mandate does not have broad support across partisan and sociodemographic groups. Policymakers who choose to pursue an individual mandate for policy reasons may expand the base of supporters by incorporating it into a "shared-responsibility" plan that includes requirements for employers, government, and insurers.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Child
Cooperative Behavior
Female
Financing, Government legislation & jurisprudence
Financing, Personal legislation & jurisprudence
Health Benefit Plans, Employee legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Insurance Coverage legislation & jurisprudence
Insurance Pools legislation & jurisprudence
Male
Middle Aged
Risk Sharing, Financial legislation & jurisprudence
Uncompensated Care legislation & jurisprudence
United States
Young Adult
Health Care Reform legislation & jurisprudence
Health Policy legislation & jurisprudence
Mandatory Programs legislation & jurisprudence
Politics
Public Opinion
Universal Health Insurance legislation & jurisprudence
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1544-5208
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Health affairs (Project Hope)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19383640
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.w501