Mandates

I thought this was the most enlightening exchange we've had yet on the mandates issue. Folks have convinced me over time that Obama's got this wrong on the merits ... his notion of a mandate-less big-picture reform sounds appealing, but it's fundamentally unworkable. Indeed, by the same token (and for the same reasons) you could never get it passed into law -- if you want guaranteed issue, you need a mandate.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/01/mandates/47770/