Every government program makes promises that are a stretch. But few policy promises stretched the levels of credulity more than Obamacare did with the idea that America’s younger and healthier citizens would suddenly step up and buy expensive health insurance plans.
And now, President Trump has basically signed the death warrant for the stretch of a policy known as the “individual mandate.” He did that by signing an Executive Order on Friday that instructs the Health and Human Services Department to do all it can to “grant exceptions from” or “delay” the enforcement of the mandate. This is basically telling the bureaucracy to let it die from neglect.
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