Healthcare: What Happens If the Individual Mandate Falls, in One Chart

For health insurers, the worst-case scenario is one where the court overturns the mandate but still leaves standing the requirement that health plans accept all applicants. As less healthy Americans enrolled, premiums would most likely spike. America's Health Insurance Plans rounds up the research that health-care economists have done, so far, estimating what striking the mandate would mean for health-care coverage and cost:

For more, see What Happens If the Individual Mandate Falls, in One Chart by Sarah Kliff, March 23, 2012 at Ezra Klein.