Obamacare Mandate... a CONSERVATIVE Idea???

[Aquila]

Obamacare (Health Insurance Mandate) was originally a CONSERVATIVE think tank idea!!! Now it is CONSERVATIVES that are raging against it!!! Too funny! LOL

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/201...idual-mandate/

If Obamacare wrecks the country... way to go Conservatives, you're idea was dumb. And... way to go Liberals... you shouldn't have taken a Conservative idea and ran with it.

[Aquila]

Funny...

With 60% of the American people already on some form of taxpayer subsidized healthcare, the mass hysteria over SCOTUS upholding Obamacare is most interesting. America is already a socialist nation and most Americans absolutely do demand government provided healthcare and support for Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs remains quite strong. Americans are just like everybody else – they want something for free (translation: at the expense of somebody else) but there is no such thing as a free anything and anything the government does is very costly, inefficient and life threatening. The left is angry because it wanted a single payer healthcare system (some Dems really wanted Obamacare declared unconstitutional). The right is angry because a piece of Democrat legislation was declared constitutional. The healthcare mandate was hatched by the conservative Heritage Foundation back in the late 1980’s. Republicans made several attempts to pass it but the Democrats opposed it because they were holding out for a single payer system. Well, the Republicans got their dream mandate – it’s named Obamacare.

From the following link:

http://www.humblelibertarian.com/201...e-and-omg.html

[deacon blues]

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[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Obamacare (Health Insurance Mandate) was originally a CONSERVATIVE think tank idea!!! Now it is CONSERVATIVES that are raging against it!!! Too funny! LOL

http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/201...idual-mandate/

If Obamacare wrecks the country... way to go Conservatives, you're idea was dumb. And... way to go Liberals... you shouldn't have taken a Conservative idea and ran with it.

Your link has an update stating the idea didn't come from Heritage Foundation.

UPDATE: John Goodman says: “Did the ideas behind ObamaCare originate at the Heritage Foundation? I would say ‘no.’ They originated with [Stanford economist] Alain Enthoven. But Heritage played a role.” I’ll have more on the history of the individual mandate in a future post.

The Heritage Foundation explains their role on healthcare.

Don’t Blame Heritage for ObamaCare Mandate

My idea was hardly new. Heritage did not invent the individual mandate.

But the version of the health insurance mandate Heritage and I supported in the 1990s had three critical features. First, it was not primarily intended to push people to obtain protection for their own good, but to protect others. Like auto damage liability insurance required in most states, our requirement focused on “catastrophic” costs — so hospitals and taxpayers would not have to foot the bill for the expensive illness or accident of someone who did not buy insurance.

Second, we sought to induce people to buy coverage primarily through the carrot of a generous health credit or voucher, financed in part by a fundamental reform of the tax treatment of health coverage, rather than by a stick.

And third, in the legislation we helped craft that ultimately became a preferred alternative to ClintonCare, the “mandate” was actually the loss of certain tax breaks for those not choosing to buy coverage, not a legal requirement.

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/06/...acare-mandate/