In other cases, people were told they had to buy the insurance as a condition of being offered their loan.
It is certainly true that the White House and congressional supporters of CLASS disagreed with Foster and chose to use more favorable Congressional Budget Office estimates of how many people would buy the insurance.
Just as in the buffet case, those who will buy the insurance are those with the greatest expected health care costs and in particular those for whom the expected costs of health care exceed the cost of the insurance.
While those choosing to exit would lose their Medicare subsidies, they would gain something more precious: the freedom to use their own money to buy the insurance they want, without fear of government rationing or losing their Social Security benefits.
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After all, the wealthiest among us can already buy the best insurance there is, and the least well off are able to get coverage through Medicaid.
Last week, insurance giant UnitedHealth Group announced a new program that lets individuals pay for the right to buy insurance in the future.
Look, I want everybody to understand -- the wealthiest among us can already buy the best insurance there is.
Health insurance vouchers would free the poor from this Medicaid ghetto, enabling them to obtain the same health care as the middle class, because they would be able to buy the same health insurance in the market.
Such premium support would free the poor from the Medicaid ghetto, enabling them to obtain the same health care as the middle class, because they would be able to buy the same health insurance in the market.
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Indeed, the law exempts consumers from the mandate to buy insurance if the cost exceeds 8 percent of their income.
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Seniors would use the money to buy insurance on the private market.
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By repealing the health law, the House GOP would also eliminate the two key mechanisms seniors would need to buy insurance on the open market a requirement that insurance companies not discriminate against those with pre-existing conditions (80 percent of those 65 and older have at least one) and exchanges though which buyers can shop for individual coverage.
About 36 percent of the New Yorkers expected to buy insurance through the exchanges won't be native English speakers, state officials estimate.
Supporters of guaranteed issue argue that it will improve the market for people with pre-existing conditions and, when combined with a mandate that everyone must buy insurance, eliminate the problem of the insurance pool only attracting sick patients.
Proponents of the law say the mandate is an essential feature because without it consumers will simply wait until they are sick to buy insurance and rapidly destroy the private insurance market.
But by agreeing with Barnett that Congress does not have the power to require people to buy health insurance under the Commerce Clause, he said, it was a victory anyway.
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Once you've decided to buy life insurance, the next decision is whether you should buy "term" or "permanent" insurance.
It could also overturn the entire law, ruling that the need to buy health insurance is integral to the legislation.
In the legal wrangling over ObamaCare, the Obama administration candidly admitted that the individual mandate, which forces Americans to buy health insurance, is the only thing preventing the new health law from eviscerating private health insurance.
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Why, she wondered, would the Constitution permit Congress to make people buy insurance at the worst time, such as after they have arrived at the emergency room, yet prohibit the policy of requiring its purchase in advance of catastrophe.
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Few of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the country earn enough to buy health insurance policies in the marketplace.
The state government will provide subsidies to help business buy insurance for the working poor.
The only way to hedge that debt was to buy default insurance via the swaps market.
The mandate will force employers to buy the most expensive health insurance for their workers, ballooning the cost of hiring.
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But they're expected to leave the money in the trust so that it can be used to buy insurance on the parent.
The challenges focus primarily on determining if Congress can dictate if people need to buy insurance, and the extent to which the federal government can regulate the insurance industry, which has typically been regulated by individual states.
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Get rid of the mandates and let Americans buy the kind of insurance they need and want.
So that means we will soon be forced, by the government, to buy insurance from one of the major private HMOs.
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Those with incomes from 100-400% of the federal poverty level qualify for sliding-scale subsidies to buy insurance on the new health exchanges.
The snag is that borrowers must buy overpriced buildings insurance from the lender.
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