From Paul Krugman:
[L]ately Mr. Obama has been stressing his differences with his rivals by attacking their [health] plans from the right — which means that he has been giving credence to false talking points that will be used against any Democratic health care plan a couple of years from now. . . .
Mr. Obama is storing up trouble for health reformers by suggesting that there is something nasty about plans that “force every American to buy health care.”
Look, the point of a mandate isn’t to dictate how people should live their lives — it’s to prevent some people from gaming the system. Under the Obama plan, healthy people could choose not to buy insurance, then sign up for it if they developed health problems later. This would lead to higher premiums for everyone else. It would reward the irresponsible, while punishing those who did the right thing and bought insurance while they were healthy. . . .
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