# If health insurance becomes manditory, how can they regulate it?

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**Created:** [April 6, 2009, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-health-insurance-becomes-manditory-how-can-they-regulate-it/492124 "2009-04-06T13:28:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2009, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-health-insurance-becomes-manditory-how-can-they-regulate-it/492124/21 "2009-04-12T13:53:28Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Just being unemployed won’t get you welfare.

in Australia, UK and many other countries it does. Our unemployment benefits are not dependent on ever having a job unlike the US system.

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