The Obama administration claimed that the individual mandate is a necessary and proper means of carrying out its reforms in the health-insurance market.
Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administrationof Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.
In fact, the Obama Administration may mandate so-called community rating, in which everyone, regardless of age or condition, pays the same price for insurance.
"The new administration must be broad-based with a mandate to speak for a majority of the people of Afghanistan, " said Patten, who is expected to travel later this month to Islamabad for a conference on Afghan reconstruction.
The administration is already fining employers in states that mandate E-Verify for technical violations of its regulations, which are costing employers thousands of dollars.
The prospect that the mandate could be declared unconstitutional has the Obama administration and health policy experts scurrying to weigh the impact of such a decision.
For his part, Andronikou remains confident he will be given the mandate to prepare a CVA and then later this month get the backing he needs to take the club out ofadministration.