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March 11, 2010 |
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What Would Happen If People Just Refused To Buy Health Insurance Even If A Law Ordered Them To?
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The state of Virginia has a nutty new law prohibiting the federal government from compelling anyone in the commonwealth to purchase health insurance. Thirty-four other states are weighing similar laws nullifying health care reform's 'individual mandate.' Timothy S. Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee who favors passage of the bill, argues reassuringly in this essay on the New England Journal of Medicine's Web site that such challenges have no legal standing whatsoever. 'We fought a war about that,...
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