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Consumer Watchdog Comments on Health Insurer's Self-Serving Support of 'Individual Mandate'
November 19, 2008Consumer Watchdog said the health insurance industry's support today of national health care reform on the condition that it includes a requirement that every American buy insurance coverage - the so called "individual mandate" - is self-serving. The proposal amounts only to a customer delivery system for the fragmented, wasteful private insurance market. It will not solve America's health care problems and will only encourage the industry to charge higher premiums and demand more taxpayer subsidies while providing less health care. Full release