The individual mandate, an idea inspired by conservative intellectuals but ultimately embraced by Democratic lawmakers as an essential part of the Affordable Care Act, will soon be dead. The provision ...

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 ...

Reason's Peter Suderman mostly agrees that there's been a broad flip-flop within the GOP on the individual mandate. But, he asks, "couldn’t you accuse Democrats of more or less the same thing when it ...

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two hours of oral argument on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, marking the second of three days of ...

The most heavily debated element of President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is the constitutionality of the individual health insurance mandate, which requires ...

WASHINGTON —Having wiped out the requirement for people to have health insurance, Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a new target: rolling back the mandate in the Affordable Care Act that ...

We’ve received a few reponses from a quick debate-night item on Rick Santorum and the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. On the blog, we discussed a May 2, 1994 news report unearthed by ...

One feature of President Obama's proposed health plan is a mandate requiring all individuals to have health insurance. But as health care legislation makes its way through the Senate this week, ...

Ezra Klein of the Washington Post has said a version of this already today, but it’s worth repeating. There is only a very, very slim chance that the individual mandate will be repealed by Congress, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest version of the tax reform bill released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, would not repeal the ACA’s individual mandate, according to a news update ...