I don’t understand why people keep calling Obamacare a Republican plan just because Heritage Foundation and conservatives loved the plan at first does not mean we have to love it forever. We looked at the plan and thought this was great. When Obama delivered our plan, we looked at it again and decided it was awful. This happens all the time and people don’t get all in a pickle over it. Heck when Obama changes his mind, the media are all in love with it. For example, when Obama was against gay marriage the media was ok with it, but when he decided to support gay marriage, the media was ok with it too. The Republicans don’t receive the same courtesy I guess.
Don’t be disingenuous. Heritage never supported Obamacare or anything like it. They did propose an individual mandate almost 20 years ago during HillaryCare debates, and then reversed that long before anyone outside of Hyde Park Chicago even knew the name Barack Obama.
The mandate is probably the least insidious aspect of Obamacare. It puts the government in charge of dictating exactly how our entire medical system operates, from coverage to profit margins to deciding when services are ‘cut off’ to save tax dollars.