"This individual mandate is to keep premiums low for everyone," he said, noting that "if you don’t have incentives for everyone to sign up for coverage then only the sick people will enroll which will ...

It's not a prospect many legal observers took seriously until earlier today, but now that swing-vote Justice Anthony Kennedy has shown some of his true colors, everyone's wondering what will become of ...

The individual mandate is the single most controversial feature of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Everyone who can afford coverage—unless an undocumented immigrant or exempted on ...

Hang on: a huge shift is coming to Alaska health care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, signed into law on March 23, 2010, brought a massive realignment of the ...

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy may tip the balance either for or against the individual mandate in what otherwise seems to be an equally divided Supreme Court, according to a SCOTUS blog report. This ...

Justices divided on outcome of health act if individual mandate is rejected. March 28, 2012 — -- After three days and more than six hours of arguments before the Supreme Court, Solicitor General ...

If the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is eliminated, insurance coverage would drop, but individuals’ premiums would increase only slightly, according to a Rand ...

The linchpin of President Obama's health care law, the individual mandate, is in trouble, according to some observers of today's Supreme Court hearing. It's not a scientific assessment but it's based ...

In what could be a sign of desperation on the part of opponents of the Paul Ryan’s budget, the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein and Slate’s Simon Lazarus both argue that the House budget contains an ...

The first of the year marked the end of the ACA’s individual mandate requiring Americans to gain health insurance or pay a fine. While the national mandate is gone, three states and the District of ...

On Tuesday, Mother Jones' Kevin Drum—taking a cue from Washington Post columnist and MSNBC contributor Ezra Klein—asked whether the individual mandate provision in the Affordable Care Act even ...

An alarming article in Politico.com looks at what could happen if the Supreme Court determines that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate provision is unconstitutional—something that the ...