[FreeReign]

I don’t support an individual mandate, but they need to couple that stand with a Federal law that allows healthcare providers to refuse to treat someone if they don’t have the means to pay. Telling hospitals you have to treat anyone and pass the costs on to the rest of us is nuts.

Good post.

It's worth noting that a health insurance mandate was a position once held by some conservatives to compensate for hospitals being required to treat patients who don't have insurance. It wasn't a means to fund government run health care like Obamacare.

Santorum has been disingenuous at best claiming that the Individual Mandate to purchase health insurance is in and of itself the core of Obamacare. The core of Obamacare is the forced take over of health care.

For the record, I'm against mandated health insurance and mandated health treatment. They are both unconstitutional.

Can anybody identify one candidate who is against unconstitutionally mandated health treatment?

I can't.

[FresnoRobert]

I can name one. Santorum is one that has never supported government mandated healthcare and has fought consistently for the rights of the individual. I think the video JellyBean posted proves that. In 1994 he was for de-linking government control of healthcare. Mitt and Newt can’t say the same. I don’t know where Paul stood in the past.