health ruling thursday

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Originally Posted by ArlJim78

What a load of nonsense. Some Republicans (a small minority) have been for the IM. That doesn't make it a "100% Republican idea", and the idea that this is something that Republicans have been pushing for 25 years is preposterous. Yes some did advocate for it but they were shot down by the majority who wanted no part of it.

The individual mandate was created by the Republican Heritage Foundation, and yes, the Republicans - including the majority leaders, such as Newt - have embraced the individual mandate since they were against the Clinton health care reforms. The insurance industry lobbyists have always supported it (they even have during Obama) The GOP has indeed pushed the mandate very hard during the 1990's and 2000's. It's all about "buy your own insurance, be responsible for yourself".

Yes, the GOP "is" the individual mandate. Democrats always hated it as they considered it a giveaway to the private insurance companies (and why progressives didn't like it when Obama embraced it to try and get something passed for the first time ever)

Every president of the past 60 years had said our health insurance model needed major reform. Finally we have a start.