Obamacare mandate comes from Romneycare The River Reporter’s editorial on Obamacare (11/17-23) was informative and correct in saying “Republicans… have long railed against the …
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Obamacare mandate comes from Romneycare
The River Reporter’s editorial on Obamacare (11/17-23) was informative and correct in saying “Republicans… have long railed against the individual mandate.” What might have been added is that the mandate began as a Republican idea developed by a Republican think tank. Further, it was a Republican governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney, who embraced the individual mandate in the state’s medical insurance program as a way, he said, to prevent “freeloaders” from gaming the system.
Republicans began “railing” against the Republican idea of the individual mandate when Obama embraced their idea.
Bill Duncan
Woodbourne, NY
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