According to the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, state lawmakers have enacted more than 1,900 benefit mandates on consumers.   The federal government has enacted three mandated benefits on consumers.  In addition, states and the federal government have imposed guaranteed issue coverage mandates and price control mandates (community rating) on American workers and small employers.

We challenge Congress and state legislators to impose a five-year mandate free zone on Americans beginning in 2008 and running through 2013.