Health Insurance

Poll Shows Baucus Individual Mandate To Buy Health Insurance Unpopular

Published in State and Local Health Law Weekly, November 27th, 2008

Consumer Watchdog countered Senator Max Baucus' (D-MT) contention that the mandatory purchase of health insurance was popular with Americans by pointing to a poll showing that voters overwhelmingly reject requiring proof of private health insurance when they are told they might have to pay some of the premium costs.

Less than one in five voters (16%) support such a plan and nearly two-thirds (63%) were opposed when told insurers had no limit on how much they could charge. Only one-in-three (32%) supported the mandatory purchase plan even if insurers' premiums were regulated.

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Source: State and Local Health Law Weekly (2008-11-27)

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