From Sally Pipes/InvestorsBusinessDaily: ObamaCare Individual Mandate Shifts Costs To Others

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ObamaCare Individual Mandate Shifts Costs To Others

By SALLY C. PIPES Posted 06:18 PM ET

"The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments next week on the constitutionality of President Obama's health reform law. One of the issues the high court will consider is whether Congress can require virtually every American to buy health insurance.

The law's defenders claim that forcing the uninsured to buy insurance (the individual mandate) is needed to reduce the costs supposedly shifted to the insured by the uninsured who cannot pay the full amount.

The Pacific Research Institute, the Benjamin Rush Society, Docs 4 Patient Care, the Galen Institute, and Ms. Angel Raich filed a brief with the Court in which we demonstrated that the new law will actually increase the cost shifts — contrary to the claims of its defenders."