Link: NY Times: Obamacare’s Insurance Mandate Is Unpopular. So Why Not Just Get Rid of It?

An excerpt: Without the mandate, the C.B.O. has said for years, premiums would spike, and millions fewer Americans would have health insurance. The budget office’s most recent estimate, published last week, said that the ranks of the uninsured would rise by 13 million over 10 years, and that average premiums would be 10 percent higher than under current law.