Just saw this and thought it was an interesting article.
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Republicans are proving how cynical and doubletalking they are over and over again by going aftter this mandate issue.
Mitt Romney supported it.
Scott Brown supported Romney supporting it.
Orin Hatch supported it as well as Chuck Grassley.
And guess who els?????????????????
GEORGE H.W. BUSH THAT'S WHO!!!!
Well, well, well what do we have here:
Individual Mandate, Now Vilified By GOP, Was Supported By George H.W. Bush
Sam Stein
First Posted: 03-29-10 11:31 AM | Updated: 03-29-10 12:48 PM
Though Republican lawmakers now vilify the individual mandate for health insurance coverage as unconstitutional, the provision has long roots in conservative health care philosophy and has been supported by such GOP presidents as Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush.
Republican administrations were among the first to embrace the concept of forcing individuals to buy coverage. Nixon -- hoping to stave off the single-payer ethos of many congressional Democrats -- explored the idea in the 1970s, though Republicans now dismiss those discussions as the byproduct of a moderate president searching for a domestic policy victory.
Less than two decades later, in what remains an unexplored chapter of health care history, a surprising supporter of the individual mandate was George H.W. Bush. According to contemporaneous reporting, Bush used "the tax system to 'encourage and empower' individuals to buy health insurance and would enact insurance market reforms that make it possible for everyone -- even if they have pre-existing health problems -- to get insurance." In short: individuals would be mandated to buy catastrophic health insurance. The cost of that coverage would be tied to income, meaning that the poorer you were, the less expensive your policy would be.
The relevant quote is on page 25
See article and evidence here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Where do they go from here you might ask???
Well, repubs never have a problem going so I guess they will go somewhere really hard and really angry!
sigh----