Remember RomneyCare...
Governor Romney still defends his plan five years later while publicly saying as President he would repeal and replace ObamaCare. But the two plans are similar in at least three significant ways:
Both have an individual mandate that requires people to purchase a private good – in this case, health insurance – and levies a financial penalty against those who don’t.
Both implement a new government bureaucracy called an “exchange” through which all insurance policies are approved, sold, and heavily regulated.
Both have sizeable subsidies for low-income people to purchase the mandated coverage.