Would a Health Care Mandate Mean Universal Coverage?
by Don Pedro, Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 09:04:25 AM EST
Cross-posted to Economists for Obama
Jonathan Gruber of MIT has a new NBER working paper on health insurance coverage, based largely on a simulation model. Krugman cites the paper as evidence that making coverage mandatory makes a big difference for the number actually covered.
However, if you read the whole paper (unfortunately only available to subscribers), you find that Gruber sidesteps the crucial question of how a mandate will be enforced and just assumes a mandate will work.
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