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It was Heritage Foundation that first proposed the Individual Mandate
The foundation of Obamacare
Heritage Foundation, now there's a unbiased resource.
To rightwinger & kiwiman127: Give it a rest. It was actually Mitt Romney trying to justify RomneyCare that started the myth. RomneyCare cost him the election with conservatives not the Heritage Foundation:
If citations to policy papers were subject to the same rules as legal citations, then the Heritage position quoted by the Department of Justice would have a red flag indicating it had been reversed. . . . Heritage has stopped supporting any insurance mandate.
Heritage policy experts never supported an unqualified mandate like that in the PPACA [ObamaCare]. Their prior support for a qualified mandate was limited to catastrophic coverage (true insurance that is precisely what the PPACA forbids), coupled with tax relief for all families and other reforms that are conspicuously absent from the PPACA. Since then, a growing body of research has provided a strong basis to conclude that any government insurance mandate is not only unnecessary, but is a bad policy option. Moreover, Heritage’s legal scholars have been consistent in explaining that the type of mandate in the PPACA is unconstitutional.
Heritage policy experts never supported an unqualified mandate like that in the PPACA [ObamaCare]. Their prior support for a qualified mandate was limited to catastrophic coverage (true insurance that is precisely what the PPACA forbids), coupled with tax relief for all families and other reforms that are conspicuously absent from the PPACA. Since then, a growing body of research has provided a strong basis to conclude that any government insurance mandate is not only unnecessary, but is a bad policy option. Moreover, Heritage’s legal scholars have been consistent in explaining that the type of mandate in the PPACA is unconstitutional.
Pharma & Healthcare 10/20/2011 @ 8:26AM
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate
Avik Roy , Forbes Staff
How the Heritage Foundation a Conservative Think Tank Promoted the Individual Mandate - Forbes
How the Heritage Foundation, a Conservative Think Tank, Promoted the Individual Mandate
Avik Roy , Forbes Staff
How the Heritage Foundation a Conservative Think Tank Promoted the Individual Mandate - Forbes
The fact is: HillaryCare II would still be a vicious, totalitarian, unconstitutional-law without the individual mandate in it. On the bright side, the individual mandate can end up overturning the entire law.