The individual mandate under the PPACA requires that most American be covered by health insurance or pay a penalty. The study’s authors used models to simulate how individuals and businesses would respond if the individual mandate were thrown out, and their findings include the following:
• Between 40 million and 42 million people would still be uninsured, as opposed to 26 million if the mandate were allowed.
• Uncompensated care would spike due to the large uninsured population, perhaps by as much as $20 billion if Medicaid eligibility were still expanded.
• Private health plans would cover 4 million less people.
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