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Kevin Outterson

After The Deluge: Health Reform Without An Individual Mandate

By Austin Frakt and Kevin Outterson February 24, 2011 KFF Health News Original

As challenges to the health law’s individual mandate wind their way through the courts, it is important to focus on the real question: what happens to the health law if this provision is ultimately struck down?

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