Poll: Without a mandate, how would you manage adverse selection under PPACA?
April 11th, 2012
By jeremy.engdahl-johnson
With the Supreme Court currently considering the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in whole or in part, everyone is weighing in on whether the law could or could not survive without the individual mandate, but almost everyone agrees that without the mandate, adverse selection could be a problem. Our latest poll asks: given such a scenario, what do you think would be the best strategy for managing adverse selection?
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You have left out a very important alternative. One of the choices should be to donate to voluntary private organizations to take care of the indigent. This was the way it was done until we decided to give up our civic responsibilities and use the government to force others to pay for what we though they should support.