Miller-McCune Online | A Prognosis on Mandates and Guarantees
. . . Those who support individual mandates are by no means dominated by the insurance industry. Advocates include The Brookings Institution, The Urban Institute and The New America Foundation, where health care economist Len Nichols says major reform doesn't have to start with a mandate, but it needs to be included pretty early on.
Even more important, he adds: America's health care system needs to be more rational.
"If you impose… more