Legal Commentary

FixingThe Mandate Tax: Autoenrollment Into Public Insurance

By Big Tent Democrat

While I strongly oppose the BaucusCare Mandate Tax, I do want to make clear that I support both individual and employer mandates. The solution is simple, UNLESS you are mainly concerned about the profits of the health insurance industry.

The solution is a simple one. BaucusCare provides:

Excise Tax. The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be an excise tax. [. . .]

Instead, this should state "Autoenrollment In a Public Insurance Option. The consequence for not maintaining insurance would be auto-enrollment into a public insurance option."

There. Problem fixed.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on September 21, 2009 (boomark / email).