mandate

While undoing the mandate might only take 50+ Senators due to the SCOTUS decision labeling it a tax, special interests could possibly stop it from happening. Namely, insurance companies which donate a lot to the GOP. Check out this post, some interesting and potentially unfortunate possibilities...

All Americans will be required to have insurance by 2014 or will have to pay a penalty. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-28/obama-s-health-care-overhaul-upheld-by-u-s-supreme-court.html Edit: States will not have the gun-to-the-head with medicaid expansion though. SCOTUS ruled that they...

Say you had your optimal system in place for Fed goals. What would it be? Would you stick with the current dual mandate (targeting full employment and price stability) or would you change it to something else? Perhaps the growing idea of ngdp targeting? Also, feel free to include systemic...

Some Republicans have proposed a bill to get rid of the Fed's dual mandate of price stability and full employment and switching it with a sole focus on price stability. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AF49F20101116 ...and this is why I would rather have the GOP in office- at least they...

Many Democrats are arguing that an insurance mandate is necessary so that everyone will be forced to get health insurance. This is for the sake of cost sharing; nowadays, for instance, many consumers are looking to tighten their belts and find savings everywhere they can. One bet many poor...