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But Hatch's opposition is ironic, or some would say, politically motivated. The last time Congress debated a health overhaul, when Bill Clinton was president, Hatch and several other senators who now oppose the so-called individual mandate actually supported a bill that would have required it.
In fact, says Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea. "It was invented by Mark Pauly to give to George Bush Sr. back in the day, as a competition to the employer mandate focus of the Democrats at the time."
Pauly, a conservative health economist at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, says it wasn't just his idea. Back in the late 1980s " when Democrats were pushing not just a requirement for employers to provide insurance, but also the possibility of a government-sponsored single-payer system " "a group of economists and health policy people, market-oriented, sat down and said, 'Let's see if we can come up with a health reform proposal that would preserve a role for markets but would also achieve universal coverage.' "
What is Pres Trump's obsession with fmr Pres Biden that his name seems to haunt so many of Pres Trump's incoherent ramblings?
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-11-13 09:11 PM | Reply
He's obsessed with Obama. He's been trying to get something anything on Obama and have failed spectacularly. His only hope is to go after Biden and get him that way. Just sayin.