Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Stephen Colbert and George Will Discuss Health Care Mandates

By Paul Gessing

Categories: Individual Mandates, New Mexico

As I've mentioned before on this blog, health care mandates are a big problem with increasing health care costs. Rarely is this issue discussed in the media, but George Will recently brought up the point with Stephen Colbert on health care and mandates (click here and fast-forward two-thirds of the way through).

According to data compiled by the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, New Mexico has the 9th-highest mandate total (51) in the nation. Obviously, forcing people to buy a "premium" health insurance product if they are to buy any insurance at all is a big factor in giving the state the 2nd-highest-in-the-nation uninsured rate.