Yet, without the mandate, insurance sellers could not possibly provide coverage to those who have a history of being ill without having enough healthy customers to keep the insurance pools in balance.
The whole point of having prescriptions is so that drugs which have harmful side-effects only go to those who are illenough that the benefits outweigh the possible side-effects.
In Tennessee, several patients have recovered enough to walk on their own, but "some of these patients are critically ill, " said Marion Kainer, an epidemiologist with the Tennessee Health Department.