Under the affordable care act the individual mandate

The individual mandate guarantees that insurance companies would not be altering their rates based on the current health of those who apply for insurance. Without this mandate, insurance companies raised rates for unhealthy people because there was a lack of healthy people paying for their own insurance so it would lead to only harming those who are sick.

1920 census

the census was scheduled for january the 1st, as the government believed that more farmers would be in their homes by that time instead of april. the census did not ask about unemployment, the number of children, and how long was a couple married were not taken into consideration. individuals were considered as residents of the places they normally slept, not the places were they worked at or visited.

2010 census

the census was scheduled for april 1st, 2010. it was the shortest census in history: it only contained 10 questions related to name, age, gender, ethnicity, relationship, and whether the citizen owned a home or rented one. the government launched a website in order to provide the citizens with information regarding the census. there were also "teach census weeks" in schools nationwide.