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A health plan ‘down payment’ is one way states are retooling individual mandate


 


Jason Levitis, a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy who has been instrumental in helping states craft their own versions of the individual mandate, warned that Maryland’s approach could face administrative challenges.

States that follow an approach more closely modeled after the federal mandate, he said, will have an easier time implementing it because regulators have already had 5 years of experience enforcing it.

Still, Mr. Levitis praised the Maryland plan: “There’s something attractive about the idea there, that you put this money … towards coverage.”

And a sampling of state proposals highlight a common theme.

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