To date, California, Massachusetts, Maryland and Connecticut have considered mandatory insurance legislation.
When Massachusetts became a mandatory insurance state, the caterer began offering Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA HMO.
While 70% of the cost of basic services is paid for by mandatory insurance, consumers have limited treatment choices.
If you think that the mandatory insurance idea is onerous, think again.
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Anne Tumlinson of the consulting firm Avalere Health, Josh Wiener of RTI International and their co-authors found that mandatory insurance would be significantly less expensive than voluntary coverage.
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So the idea is you combine a rule that eliminates preexisting condition exclusions with mandatory health insurance, just like auto insurance is mandatory.
The requirement, Obama noted Wednesday night, would be similar to mandatory auto insurance in most states.
He says that he supports antitrust laws, occupational health and safety regulations, equal-opportunity-employment requirements, and mandatory unemployment insurance.
Finally, the Swiss have a comprehensive system of mandatory health insurance (sound familiar?) but they also require coverage for accidental injuries.
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Anything like that (such as mandatory automobile insurance) always before has been recognized as a function of the police power reserved to the states.
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Industries will have to "pay the bill" for pollution through a mandatory liability insurance pilot scheme launched in 11 provinces and regions, People's Daily adds.
Some states have demanded mandatory liability insurance for gun owners.
In the latest stage of his campaign to transform the Big Apple into a civilised place, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani proposes tough new taxi regulations, including drug and alcohol tests for new drivers, heftier fines for driving offences, and a big increase in cabbies' mandatory accident insurance coverage.
In fact, the US model of mandatory personal auto insurance might become archaic.
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As gun violence legislation sputters in Congress, the idea of requiring mandatory gun liability insurance seems to be gaining more traction.
When the Massachusetts Legislature made health insurance mandatory five years ago, supporters of the first-in-the-nation law hoped it would keep patients out of hospital emergency rooms.
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If the Supreme Court upholds the health insurance mandate, can mandatory dietary requirements for adults be far behind?
And if we do try again to adopt a national long-term care insurance system, should it be mandatory or voluntary?
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And, as usual, they ignore the unfunded liabilities of social insurance programs, even though these benefits are officially recognized as "mandatory spending" when the time comes to pay them out.
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