Wednesday, August 04, 2010

The individual mandate is stupid, says Candidate Obama

Reason Online discusses the big MO and Obamacare's insurance requirement:

Throughout the health care debate, most polls on the subject found that the individual mandate, a key feature in the law’s nearly universal insurance scheme, was among the least popular provisions. And the fact that the electorate opposed such a provision by a significant margins had been well understood for years; as a candidate for president, Obama specifically opposed the mandate, saying,“If a mandate was the solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house.” But once in office, Obama flipped his position.
If most Americans disapprove of the health care reform now, how are they going to feel when the Obamacare taxes phase in? What a great law.

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