Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120328:15:23:00
A mandate of some kind to buy insurance was seen very widely including by me and others on all sides and in the academic world as a way of dealing with a problem that some people would not buy insurance and simply go to the emergency room and run up huge bills that somebody else had to pay for. so it was seen as a particular problem. and the idea of a individual mandate was seen by me and others as a necessary evil to deal with that problem. at that time the idea of a mandate was very widely-held, as owe the post said. people like mark paulie, professor at university of pennsylvania and many o...