Guaranteed issue is a mandate upon health insurers to offer health insurance to anyone willing to pay the quoted premium.
As I have explained in detail in several earlier posts, forcing upon private insurers a mandate of community rating and guaranteed issue will not work, unless accompanied by a mandate upon all citizens to have at least a minimally adequate health insurance policy with specified benefit coverage.
Even Mitt Romney — at heart a Republican technocrat (and the only candidate I've ever seen give a campaign speech with PowerPoint) — talks as if the main role of the president is to grant waivers from any kind of mandate upon the states.
He was in and at his own home, as the law has doctrinally defined as his castle, a unique place that provides safe harbor and from where retreat is not legally mandated upon certain threat.
Others, however, are likely to consider the withholding of unpatented patient data to hinder rather than 'to promote the progress of science and useful arts,' the Constitutional mandate upon which the US patent system is founded.
As the postal service bleeds millions in losses -- mostly due to unique funding mandates placed upon it by Congress -- Sanders has staunchly opposed the closure of postal facilities and cuts in postal service, such as Saturday delivery.
Or the Environmental Capital post about the new green building codes: "The bill mandates that upon passage, all states move to adopt standards for residential and commercial structures that are at least 30percentt better than two widely accepted energy codes.
Often the "opening" of the Inward Light is a "concern" for the sufferings of others and a mandate laid upon the conscience to take action to alleviate that suffering.
Consensual contracts needed nothing except verbal or written agreement between the parties, and though there were only four such contracts known to the law, they were the most important in ordinary life sale, hire of things or services, partnership, and mandate (acting upon instructions).
In the last 10 years, Turkey has been healing through the democratic mandate bestowed upon my party.
