About that mandate<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Affordable Care Act addresses the many issues Americans are facing: affordability, access, and quality of care. By mandating health insurance coverage and free preventative care, it also addresses one of the most talked about aspects of health care reform: the cost of providing so many Americans with health care. Like any private insurance pool, there must be a number of healthy individuals paying into the pot so that there is money there for people in the same pool who become sick or injured. By mandating that even healthy people must acquire coverage, the pool increases and these low-risk people are covered in case of accident or sudden illness. This and other measures protect people from devastating medical bills, and for this reason, it\u00a0 is very similar to Missouri’s car- insurance mandate.<\/em>
\nThe cost of healthcare reform, demythologized<\/strong><\/p>\n