Claim: The health care law imposes a federal mandate requiring middle-class Americans to buy health insurance "whether they can afford it or not."
Fact-check: Artur Davis says the health care law requires people to buy insurance "whether they can afford it or not"
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Angie Drobnic Holan
Date published: 2012-08-29T00:00:00