A so-called "individual mandate" is an option the state's commission on health care reform is considering.Martha Bebinger tells us about Massachusetts, which already has a mandate.Then Ryan Warner talks with Len Nichols, Health Policy Director at the Washington DC-based New America Foundation and Kelly Shanahan, Policy Director at the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative.
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