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The theory behind the mandate, according to its proponents, is this: Requiring coverage brings both sick and healthy people into the pool of those insured, which is essential because premiums paid by the healthy offset the cost of covering the sick.
The president seems to recognize, as Lyndon Johnson did some 45 years ago, that there is exceptional power behind the mandate he's been given.
The idea behind the mandate was that everyone who can "afford" insurance should buy it, to avoid saddling the rest of us with the cost of their medical care.
The basic idea behind the mandate is that people shouldn't wait until they're sick to buy health insurance or expect the rest of us to foot the bill when they get treatments for which they can't pay.
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Reviewing "The Hunger Games" for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis wrote that Mr. Ross "has a way of smoothing even modestly irregular edges" in the film, and that the lead character of Katniss may be "far rougher than Mr. Ross often seems comfortable with, perhaps because of disposition, inclination or some behind-the-scenes executive mandate".
Katniss, who for years has bagged game to keep her family from starving, was created for rough stuff — for beating the odds and the state, for hunting squirrel and people both — far rougher than Mr. Ross often seems comfortable with, perhaps because of disposition, inclination or some behind-the-scenes executive mandate.
His last suggestion – that corporate companies see the opportunity for startups to do the disruption on their behalf – is precisely the mandate behind The Coca-Cola Company's Venturing & Emerging Brands unit.
At the same forum, the other front-runner, Donald J. Trump, said he was "100percentt" behind the ethanol mandate and would even support increasing it further.
The idea behind the individual mandate is that without it, healthy people would refrain from buying health insurance, leaving the insurance pool filled primarily with people who have high average health care costs.
Maybe they'll unite behind the renewed mandate?
Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service undermined the only real enforcement mechanism behind the individual mandate: the tax penalty for Americans who go a month or more without coverage.
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