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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Some people will believe anything, this is from the Heritage Foundations website
Heritage policy experts never supported an unqualified mandate like that in the PPACA [ObamaCare]. Their prior support for a qualified mandate was limited to catastrophic coverage (true insurance that is precisely what the PPACA forbids), coupled with tax relief for all families and other reforms that are conspicuously absent from the PPACA. Since then, a growing body of research has provided a strong basis to conclude that any government insurance mandate is not only unnecessary, but is a bad policy option. Moreover, Heritage’s legal scholars have been consistent in explaining that the type of mandate in the PPACA is unconstitutional.
Obamacare puts the health care system on the wrong track and will expand the role of the federal government in every component of Americans’ health care. To get the health care system on the right track that empowers patients, reduces cost, and ensures access, Obamacare must be repealed.
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You're picking nits.
I'll split difference with you and say the Heritage Foundation plan had what you could call a catastrophic individual mandate. Nonetheless, an individual mandate.
Since then, the plan has been introduced at least 3 times that I know of
1993 - co-sponsored by 18 republicans including Bob Dole - individual mandate
2006 - Romneycare in Massachusetts (you know, that thing he had to pretend never happened) - individual mandate
2010 - Obamacare (most of which doesn't start until 2014) - individual mandate
Once again... and somehow, Obama is the radical socialist communist marxist
