[Bernard Marx]

It was created by Mitt Romney

No, it was actually created by the Heritage Foundation. The following is from the Journal of the American Medical Association:

"In 2006, a Republican Governor, a Democratic Speaker of the House, and a Democratic President of the State Senate collaborated to develop Massachusetts health insurance reform. The Republican Governor insisted on a proposal originally written by Stuart Butler, PhD, of the conservative Heritage Foundation (and a JAMA Forum contributor), which included an individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Butler said, “If a young man wrecks his Porsche and has not had the foresight to obtain insurance, we may commiserate, but society feels no obligation to repair his car. But health care is different. If a man is struck down by a heart attack in the street, Americans will care for him whether or not he has insurance.”

While Heritage has backed away from its initial proposal, it's the irony of ironies that Obamacare is patterned after a Heritage proposal.

[nickcarraway]

Wow. The Heritage Foundation should be disassembled brick by brick.

[taildragger]

My memory has not failed me. One of the elements of Romney / Heritage Care was the Individual Mandate and you were to buy a policy or post a bond of a rather large amount to self insurer. That was kiboshed by the Mass Legislature. At that point We should have known this was doomed....

[cynwoody]

No, it was actually created by the Heritage Foundation.

Mittens in October 2011 on where he got the idea of the individual mandate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X61J-5sW288&t=29m