Romney's Personal Responsibility Principle Provision -2006

Catawba said:

It could not be more ironic that conservatives find themselves in the position of being against the insurance mandate they themselves created as an alternative to UHC.

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Geez, I went to the end to read the rights defense, to my suprise no responces from the right. They agree that the Romney-Bot first passed what Palenty called RobamnyCare, yet they'll vote for him because he's vowed to rid the country of that evil ObamaCare, Day One. eace

pbrauer said:

Today this is known as the individual mandate. :mrgreen:

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Catawba said:

If you look at the history of the insurance mandate, its easy to see how far to the right, conservatives have moved (just since 1989) to be in the hugely ironic position of opposing it now.

History

"An individual mandate to purchase healthcare was initially proposed by the politically conservative Heritage Foundation in 1989 as an alternative to single-payer health care. From its inception, the idea of an individual mandate was championed by Republican politicians as a free-market approach to health-care reform."

Health insurance mandate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Romney implemented it in 2006 in his state, and was there any outcry even in 2006 opposed to the insurance mandate???

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Gimmesometruth said:

In 1992, Heritage proposed a sweeping reform it called the Heritage Consumer Choice Health Plan. Among the plan’s features:
“Require all households to purchase at least a basic package of insurance, unless they are covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or other government health programs. The private insurance market would be reformed to make a standard basic package available to all at an acceptable price.”
As President Bill Clinton began to push for a government-run system in 1993, Republicans introduced bills that included an individual mandate. At the time, Newt Gingrich hailed them:
“I am for people, individuals — exactly like automobile insurance — individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance,” he told “Meet the Press” in 1993. “And I’m prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals, on a sliding scale, a government subsidy, to ensure that everyone as individuals has health insurance.”
That same year, Heritage Foundation health care guru Stuart Butler argued before Congress for “a requirement on individuals to enroll themselves and their dependents in at least a basic health plan — one that at the minimum should protect the rest of society from large and unexpected medical costs incurred by the family ... To the extent that the family cannot reasonably afford reasonable basic coverage, the rest of society, via government, should take responsibility for financing that minimum coverage.”
As late as 2007, Democrats and Republicans introduced a bipartisan bill that included an individual mandate — still seen as an essentially conservative idea. Gingrich in 2007 argued that “citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
In other words, the individual mandate is not creeping socialism. It is the opposite. It is about requiring citizens to take individual responsibility in the arena of health care, where the inaction of some costs taxpayers billions of dollars each year.

Ironic challenge: Affordable Care Act's principles were originally conservative | PennLive.com

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ChuckBerry said:

This is the clearest, easiest to understand example of why partisan politics is paralyzing our nation.

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