CongressDaily: Coverage Mandate Gains Momentum

From CongressDaily: The likelihood that healthcare overhaul legislation will include a requirement that individuals purchase health insurance appears to be getting closer to reality.

Although the Senate Finance Committee indicated they likely will include an individual mandate in their bill, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and President Obama had yet to come down definitively on the idea, particularly given that Obama did not include such a mandate from his health plan during the presidential campaign.

But Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., one of HELP Chairman Edward Kennedy's deputies on health care, told Senate Democrats Tuesday that health reform legislation being crafted by the HELP Committee will include an individual mandate.

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