Eric S notapenguin's blog: "Politics and events, some not current"

the new health care bill doesn't even enforce the mandate. What do I mean? 

I mean, that it says that is no enforcement - no enforcement - of any penalty for not buying mandated health insurance.

The penalty would only be a fine in any case, far as I know, but it's certainly interesting language to have a toothless penalty written into the language of the legislation.  I'm not sure that's a great idea myself, since it won't stop anyone from ignoring this and panicking about it anyway (this is happening already and won't stop), and there are reasons for the mandate... but what-are-you-going-to-do...