At Tax Time, No Public Backlash Over Obamacare’s Individual Mandate-wallstreetjournal: Tax season has come and gone with no great outbreak
of protest about the Affordable Care Act’s least popular provision: the
individual mandate. This central element of the ACA was included to help ensure
that the individual insurance market would have balanced pools of healthier
people and sicker people to help spread insurance risk and keep premiums
reasonable.