The big argument against the Obama Health Care law is that it is unconstitutional to require an “individual mandate” of all citizens, that they be required to buy health insurance or be assessed a penalty on their income tax returns.
And yet, this is PRECISELY what the conservative Heritage Foundation advocated on the issue of health care as early as 1989!
This is what Newt Gingrich advocated when interviewed on NBC by Tim Russert in 1993!
This is what Mitt Romney advocated in Massachusetts, when they passed the model for the Obama Health Care plan in 2006, and still praised two years ago when the health care law was passed by Congress!
So therefore, the idea of the “individual mandate” is a CONSERVATIVE and REPUBLICAN idea, but now bitterly attacked when the Democrats and Barack Obama achieve it after decades of debate about the need for health care coverage for all Americans!
What does this make the Heritage Foundation, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and many other conservative and Republican leaders?
It makes them total HYPOCRITES, not worthy of our respect and support!
Hello Professor Ron,
I heard this interesting bit of information on NPR and my thought then was that it was just TOOOOOO RICH!
I found a link I thought I would pass on.
http://www.usatoday.com/USCP/PNI/Nation/World/2012-03-27-bcscotusmandate_ST_U.htm
So to reiterate and restate for clarity, what we are now hearing being called Obama Care Socialized Medicine, was really the CONSERVATIVE REPUBICAN’S Health Care Plan in the early 1990’s.
When we hear the Pavloved programmed, non-critical thinking people, mindlessly repeating the rhetoric being propagated by Conservative Talk Radio, and Fox Programming, how surprised and disbelieving they would be to know that the “Obama Health Care Plan†they are so against today….started out as the CONSERVATIVE REPUBICAN’S Health Care Plan in the early 1990’s.