Individual-Mandate

ACA Passes with Individual Mandate Requiring Americans to Purchase Private Insurance, Delivering Industry Windfall

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President Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law, the most significant healthcare legislation since Medicare. While expanding coverage to millions of uninsured Americans, the law’s architecture reflects extensive industry lobbying, featuring an individual mandate …

Barack Obama America's Health Insurance Plans Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Max Baucus Liz Fowler +1 more healthcare insurance-industry regulatory-capture individual-mandate lobbying
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