Quote:Yes there is, insurance companies cannot write more policies than they can fulfill and there are tremendous barriers to entry that prevent new companies from joining the industry. Mandatory demand, forcing someone to purchase something, always makes the price go up.

I'm not sure you read my entire post. The additional policies that insurance companies have to write because of the mandate are not ones that they have to fulfill. The mandate is what's forcing healthy people to buy health insurance. So the additional policies they write are not going to result in a lot of claims. So when you say they cannot write more policies then they can fulfill that is irrelevant because the mandate is forcing healthy people to sign up. Not unhealthy people.

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