And why were Republicans the first to make it law, in Massachusetts, signed by Mitt Romney? "Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin of the health insurance mandate.The concept of the individual health insurance mandate originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage...
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1. Peace and Prosperity 2012!
Those people are simply liberals in Conservative clothing.
2. Extra Stuff
I guess I'm probably the only one here old enough to remember, but this crap was discussed during the days of FDR, and got no where, and many times up to and including the years of Bill Clinton, when he turned the issue over to Hillary to be the nations "health care czar" which was defeated by his own party.
3. Thunderous Barbarian
Mitt's Progressive House of Ideas is not a conservative think tank.

Many conservatives actually see state run health care as doable. But state to state and ONLY after we can establish an international trade SURPLUS to actually pay for it.
4. ?
When did Mitt and Orrin Hatch become conservatives.

They are both a couple of gun grabbing RINOs that I have about as much use for as I do Obama.

Putting an "R" behind your name does not make you any less of a scumbag.
5. sandplant16
They were originally for the mandate because it was good for the insurance agencies, and avoided the dreaded public option, which is the plan Obama originally wanted. They pushed Obama into including the mandate, into the bill, then proceeded to attack it as unconstitutional. Why? because it was Obama's bill.
6. Tripp Smith
Romney is a RHINO. Republicans may have introduced it, But it was Democrats who went behind closed doors in the middle of the nite and forced it upon Americans who were vehemently opposed to it.
7. right is right, left is wrong
as an option not a requirement and under very different terms than Obamacare. More of a Private sector plan instead of "buy or else" that the liberal idiot loon Obama supporters love so dearly.
8. Liberals Are Haters
Because it was a good idea until Obama, Pelosi, and Reid fouled it up.

We might agree about the problem, but not agree about the solution.

Obama's health care reform law is a stinker.
9. Nancy
Because the democrats brought it up
10. Beauty and brains
Liberalism is a mental disorder