Assertion: individual mandate | /r/CapableOf | pay penalty
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text: Despite the enduring popularity of the ACA’s protections for people with pre-existing conditions, the individual mandate – which requires most people to maintain health insurance coverage or else pay a penalty – has consistently been viewed negatively by a substantial share of the public.
text: The individual mandate required everyone to have insurance or pay a penalty.
text: 82% favored banning insurance companies from denying coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, 61% favored allowing children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26, 72% supported requiring companies with more than 50 employees to provide insurance for their employees, and 39% supported the individual mandate to own insurance or pay a penalty.
text: The individual mandate required people with incomes above 150 percent of poverty to enroll in insurance or pay a penalty based on half the cost of the cheapest plan available in the individual market.5 Massachusetts had significant regulations in its individual market both before and after the reform, including requirements that insurers must offer coverage to all applicants and that older adults can be charged no more than twice as much as younger adults.