Posted on 09/10/2009 6:13:30 PM PDT by Askwhy5times
President Obama has previously refused to endorse a mandate for individuals to purchase coverage. Obama flip-flopped on this issue in tonight's speech. Now, he says,
"individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance — just as most states require you to carry auto insurance."In a 2008 debate in Austen, Texas, Obama criticized Hillary Clinton's health care plan for requiring mandatory coverage. He said he doesn't believe everyone should be forced to purchase health care insurance.
Barack Obama: ... So we put in place a catastrophic reinsurance plan that would reduce costs by $2,500 per family per year. So we've got a lot of similarities in our plan. We've got a philosophical difference: Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it. My belief is that people don't have it is not because they don't want it but because they can't afford it. So I emphasize reducing costs. My plan does more than anybody to reduce costs, and there is nobody out there who wants health insurance who can't have it.Barack Obama said that people forced to purchase insurance under Massachusetts mandate were worse off now than were before.
Barack Obama: When Clinton says a mandate, it's not a mandate on government to provide health insurance, it's a mandate on individuals to purchase it. Massachusetts has a mandate right now. They have exempted 20% of the uninsured because they have concluded that that 20% can't afford it. There are people who are paying fines and still can't afford it, so now they're worse off than they were. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at bluegrasspundit.com ...
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He has realized the error of his ways.
“He needs mo money!”
I have always said the “Mandate” is the most dangerous part of the Dems plan.
There is no way out of this. It seems like the closest
thing to a tax on existance I’ve seen. It will cover all
the illegals and on the backs of those who’ve worked all
these years and hoped for a little peace at the end of life.
Obama steals everything we’ll ever have. I want out of
here, but there’s no place to go. Obama is evil!
Just wait till they try to tax your breath with cap and trade.
W’ell all have meters on our mouths and on our bums!
I choose Jail, and won’t pay his BLOODY FINE!! Tyrants; Give me liberty..
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