ObamaCare Making Insurance More Expensive Already

Ah yes, the classic "if only health insurance were more like credit cards" argument.

Beats the living hell out of the stupid and incomparable "if only medical insurance was like auto insurance" argument.

That's one conservatives made for years, until Obama bought into it, and then it became radical socialism.
 
Name names and link links.

The individual mandate was first proposed in the national debate by Senate Republicans as part of their alternative to the Clinton health care bill back in 1993 and the Heritage Foundation was touting it in their health care reform proposals as recently as 2003.

Laying the Groundwork for Universal Health Care Coverage | The Heritage Foundation

The choice quote...

The current social contract should be replaced with a more rational one. In a civilized and rich country like the United States, it is reasonable for society to accept an obligation to ensure that all residents have affordable access to at least basic health care - much as we accept the same obligation to assure a reasonable level of housing, education and nutrition.

But as part of that contract, it is also reasonable to expect residents of the society who can do so to contribute an appropriate amount to their own health care. This translates into 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. And as any social contract, there would also be an obligation on society. 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.
 
Reality. At this point, we're got the party of moderate conservativism and the party of moon-bat conservatism.
 
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Yeah......m'kay....:lol::lol::lol:

Ideas that were supported by mainstream conservatives in early 1970s (guaranteed minimum income, for starters) are considered far-left today. John Paul Stevens was the swing vote on the Supreme Court at the time of his appointment. He retires as the most liberal member of the bench. It's not that his views have changed every much, it's that each pick has moved the court further and further to the right.
 
Nixon was just such one of those "1970s conservatives" and leftist whackaloons like you HATED him.

Were Hubert Humphrey alive today, he'd probably be derided as a "reactionary".

hehehehe...further to the right....LMFAO!!!

Everyone is a "leftist whackaloon" to you because you're so far to the right that you've fallen off the edge. If you knew me, you'd know that I've made the argument before (and will do so again) that if not for Watergate, Nixon would probably be remembered as the greatest post-war president.

And yes, the court has moved significantly to the right. In the 1970s, you had justices who not only believed in a woman's right to choose, but also believed there was a constitutional right for public funding thereof. Do any justices currently on the court have this viewpoint? No. I'd not a point-of-view I agree with, but it's surely to the left of anyone currently on the high bench.
 
Yeah, right...Goober squish neocon dweebs like Juan McLouse and Shrubbie Chimpola, who never met a bloated budget or giant new bureaucracy that they didn't like, are soooooooooooo far right. :rolleyes:

And as far as Nixon is concerned, he was hated and reviled by the left way before Watergate. His damn near communistic wage and price controls were a disaster, he created OSHA, the EPA and exploded welfare spending, yet it still wasn't enough for leftist bedwetters.

Great president my ass.
 
You're proving my point. Nixon created OSHA and the EPA. Would any Republican today suggest creating these agencies if they didn't exist? Hell no.
 

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