I noticed that Kudlow didn't mention free-market for health care. So why is that? What makes health care different?
The problem with our health care system is the lack of free market policies.
The category of “regulation” includes Obamacare.
You are looking to find trouble.
The real problem with healthcare is not mandates. The REAL PROBLEM is ever escalating costs, far above the CPI, year after year. And that has been happening for 25 years WITHOUT mandates.
So why not focus on the real problem? What we really need is competition. Which means we should be able to buy insurance from any outfit OUTSIDE of our state. Right now you can NOT do that.
We also need to get rid of costs associated with defensive medicine practice which is the result of out of control mal-practice suits and awards. We would be better off to switch to a system where if the litigant loses, he has to pay defender’s legal costs. That will eliminate 90%+ frivolous law suits.
Another very important reform needed is availability of insurance covering catastrophic hospital cost only and available from any state. If such insurance was available, mandates become mostly irrelevant.