Many people who hate the Patient Protection and Affordable CareAct -- and plenty who support it -- would love to killthe individual coverage mandate.
Some want to kill the PPACA individual premium tax creditsubsidy for low-income people -- or say that Democrats in Congresskilled the tax credit for consumers who use the PPACA exchanges runby U.S. Department of Health and Human Services by failing toproofread the PPACA bill.
Christine Eibner and Evan Saltzman, analysts at the RANDCorp., point out in a new commentary that many U.S.residents now have PPACA-compliant individual coverage, purchasedeither through the public exchange system or off-exchange system,and that changing the rules now could force many to give up theirhealth coverage.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
