''In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon favored a mandate that employers provide insurance. In the 1990s, the Heritage Foundation, a leading conservative think tank, embraced an individual requirement''
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/03/27/republicans-hatched-idea-obamas-health-insurance-mandate/#ixzz1Fa9gyocF
''The GOP's 1993 measure included some features Republicans still want Democrats to consider, including damage award caps for medical malpractice lawsuits.''
Crazy, huh?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123670612
@You-LoL, okay...
@Steve- Yus
Uncle Pennybags
Sure. And it's one the GOP decided to discard eventually because it was a bad idea.
Kinda like Democrats thought racism was a great idea at one time, and then eventually discarded it.
Steve
Yes. But when a Democrat Administration actually proposed it, it automatically became something that the Republicans didn't like. If Obama said that water was wet, Republicans would find a way to say that it was dry.
Orignal From: Did you know the insurance mandate was a republican idea?
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