JOE KERNEN: Howard, you’re also expressing concern about — I guess we know that young people, young healthy people, you’re probably not getting enough of them at this point, right?
HOWARD DEAN: It doesn’t really matter that much. Honestly, the actuarial data — this is about the individual mandate. I happen to agree with Joe, the individual mandate was not necessary and it’s probably a big political thing. And that is going to hurt the Democrats because people don’t like to be told what to do by the government no matter what party they’re in. But the truth is, that wasn’t necessary, and the insurance companies like it because it does bring young, healthy people who aren’t likely to get sick into the system. But in our experience, here, although it’s with young people under 18, not with everybody is that the individual mandate is really not that necessary. And the actual data is — does not lead to the conclusion that you’re going to have huge cost overruns for the insurance companies.
Howard Dean: Individual Mandate Not Necessary, Will Hurt Democrats
No comments:
Post a Comment