Kevin Sack: “Polling suggests that at least 9 of every 10 voters in November will be insured. Many will not see universal coverage as a matter of self-interest. The complex economic argument that the uninsured impose hidden costs on everyone else may be difficult to convey in sound bites.
And the electorate may be less receptive than participants in the Democratic primaries and caucuses. A December poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 42 percent of Democrats said their top health policy concern was expanding coverage for the uninsured, while 35 percent said it was reducing costs. The priorities flipped when Republicans and independents were added to the mix, with 41 percent of all polled saying they cared most about reducing costs and 31 percent citing coverage for the uninsured.”
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Mandatory insurance coverage laws without cost control will soon be a disaster. Imagine the family caught between escalating premiums and a law that forbids them from dropping coverage to pay the mortgage or from switching to a bare-bones policy. Employers, locked by law into buying a particular benefits package, would only be able to limit an escalation in costs by laying off employees.
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