Kamala Harris is seeking to appeal to moderate voters without alienating the left of her Democratic party as the vice-president tries to find a winning political formula to defeat Donald Trump in the November election.
@#6 ... I was clear, it funnels money from taxpayers and the insured to insurance companies and their benefactors.
Is that why the ACA foundation, the individual mandate, was first promoted by Republicans?
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate (2013)
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... This came up at Tuesday's Western Republican Leadership Conference Debate, where Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich tussled on the question:
ROMNEY: Actually, Newt, we got the idea of an individual mandate from you.
GINGRICH: That's not true. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: Yes, we got it from you, and you got it from the Heritage Foundation and from you.
GINGRICH: Wait a second. What you just said is not true. You did not get that from me. You got it from the Heritage Foundation.
ROMNEY: And you never supported them?
GINGRICH: I agree with them, but I'm just saying, what you said to this audience just now plain wasn't true.
(CROSSTALK)
ROMNEY: OK. Let me ask, have you supported in the past an individual mandate?
GINGRICH: I absolutely did with the Heritage Foundation against Hillarycare.
ROMNEY: You did support an individual mandate?
ROMNEY: Oh, OK. That's what I'm saying. We got the idea from you and the Heritage Foundation.
GINGRICH: OK. A little broader.
ROMNEY: OK.
(Romney was prepared to go on, but Michele Bachmann, in her usual role as the person who makes the debates less useful, interjected and changed the subject. ...
An apropos article from four years ago ...
Biden's VP pick: Why Kamala Harris embraces her biracial roots (2020)
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... US Senator Kamala Harris - chosen by Joe Biden as his Democratic vice-presidential candidate - is known as a prominent black politician. But she has also embraced her Indian roots.
"My name is pronounced "comma-la", like the punctuation mark," Kamala Harris writes in her 2018 autobiography, The Truths We Hold.
The California senator, daughter of an Indian-born mother and Jamaican-born father, then explains the meaning of her Indian name.
"It means 'lotus flower', which is a symbol of significance in Indian culture. A lotus grows underwater, its flowers rising above the surface while the roots are planted firmly in the river bottom."
Early in life, young Kamala and her sister Maya grew up in a house filled with music by black American artists. Her mother would sing along to Aretha Franklin's early gospel, and her jazz-loving father, who taught economics at Stanford University, would play Thelonius Monk and John Coltrane on the turntable. ...
Her mother made sure her two daughters were aware of their background.
The Washington Post via Getty Images Senator Kamala Harris, with sister and advisor Maya Lakshmi Harris, prepares to speak at a 2019 eventThe Washington Post via Getty Images
Senator Kamala Harris and her sister, Maya Lakshmi Harris, are close
"My mother understood very well she was raising two black daughters. She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya and me as black girls, and she was determined to make sure we would grow into confident black women," she wrote.
"Harris grew up embracing her Indian culture, but living a proudly African-American life," wrote the Washington Post last year.
When she ran for a senate seat in 2015, the Economist magazine described her as the "daughter of an Indian cancer researcher and a Jamaican economics professor, she is the first woman, first African-American and first Asian attorney general of California". ...
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