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Health Affairs, 28, no. 3 (2009): w501-w509 (Published online 21 April 2009) doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.3.w501 © 2009 by Project HOPE	New Online   Getting Health Reform Done   After the State of the Union   Incremental Reform   E-Health in Developing World   Most-Read Articles in 2009

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Will Americans Support The Individual Mandate?

Tara Sussman, Robert J. Blendon and Andrea Louise Campbell

An individual mandate is an important feature of many recent plans to achieve universal health insurance coverage in the United States, without radically changing the way most Americans get health care and coverage. Using national public opinion data, we find that on its own, an individual mandate does not have broad support across partisan and sociodemographic groups. Policymakers who choose to pursue an individual mandate for policy reasons may expand the base of supporters by incorporating it into a "shared-responsibility" plan that includes requirements for employers, government, and insurers.

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