A former advisor to both HIllary Clinton and Barack Obama, Princeton Professor Paul Starr, has written a new article in which he argues that ObamaCare's individual mandate was a mistake.  The title of Starr's article says it all: "The Health Care Mandate Really Was a Mistake,"  He writes in his article that: 

• "Congress and the president made three miscalculations in one—a miscalculation about the courts, another about the politics, and a third about the policy itself."
• "That the mandate was a political as well as a legal miscalculation should also now be clear. When Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, many observers expected that controversy would die down, and the law would soon be as widely accepted as Medicare is. That hasn’t happened."
• "The mandate is one reason why the law’s opponents have been able to sustain their cause. No other provision could have provided as effective a basis for both the legal challenges to the law and the political campaigns against it; voters in 14 states have passed amendments to their state constitutions prohibiting an individual mandate."
• "Democrats managed to get themselves the worst possible result: a law that enflames the opposition on the basis of overreaching federal power but may not work in practice because there is no real power behind it," he writes.
• "Whether or not the Court strikes it down, the individual mandate has been one of the most serious political and policy mistakes of recent decades."

You can read Starr's full article here.

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