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 ...

An important element is being overlooked in the health-care debate between the Democratic presidential candidates: Namely, whether the plans they propose are constitutional. The largest difference ...

WASHINGTON — If national health care reform is signed into law, its linchpin — the mandate that all Americans carry health coverage — likely will move from the White House to a federal courthouse, ...

A key feature within health care proposals emerging from Congress and the White House is a mandate for all Americans to purchase insurance. But is a mandate a tax? Two experts discuss the topic with ...

Several health insurance reform plans, including the recently enacted Massachusetts plan, envision the use of individual or employer mandates to increase coverage rates. In this paper we summarize and ...

One by one, the myths of the Affordable Care Act have been revealed. When the curtain on open enrollment falls on March 31, the last remaining big myth of Obamacare will be fully exposed: The ...

You might assume the health insurance penalty disappeared years ago, and for most of the country, you would be right about that. Congress zeroed out the federal individual mandate penalty back in 2019 ...