Blast from the past: In 1990, the Heritage Foundation proposed an individual mandate

[LuckyTheDog]

The second central element in the Heritage proposal is a two-way commitment between government and citizen. Under this social contract, the federal government would agree to make it financially possible, through refund abletax benefits or in some cases by providing access to public-sector health programs, for every American family to purchase at least a basic package of medical care, including catastrophic insurance. In return, government would require, by law every head of household to acquire at least a basic health plan for his or her family. Thus there would be mandated coverage under the Heritage proposal, but the mandate would apply to the family head, who is the appropriate person to shoulder the primary responsibility for the family's health needs, rather than employers...


More here: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/1990/07/Using-Tax-Credits-to-Create-an-Affordable-Health-System

And here (PDF version): http://s3.amazonaws.com/thf_media/1990/pdf/bg777.pdf

[justiceischeap]

1. Good find! k&r

[LuckyTheDog]

2. I think this is huge

But so far, you and I are the only ones here who care. :-(

[Hannah Bell]

3. already known the health reform was recycled republicanism

[Statistical]

4. "We've always been at war with Eastasia"

20 years ago Republicans would have supported it and Democrats would have fought it.
Today Democrats support it and Republicans fight it.

[Gravel Democrat]

5. puntapié y recomendamos

[leftstreet]

6. ouch

I remember those ads

[ljm2002]

7. "or in some cases by providing access"...

..."to public-sector health programs".

That too.

K&R

[LuckyTheDog]

9. I missed the part ...

... where they say they'll change their position 180 degrees if a black Democrat becomes president. But it has to be in there somewhere.

[ljm2002]

10. Good grief ...

... I was simply pointing out another way in which so-called "liberal" or "fringe left" positions are the same as positions taken by so-called "conservatives" in the past.

Didn't intend to rain on your thread, so carry on.

[LuckyTheDog]

11. I think you misunderstood

I was ridiculing the Heritage Foundation, not you.

[ljm2002]

12. Sorry!

It is amazing, isn't it -- things that came from a right wing think tank just a few years ago are presented as fringe left positions.

No wonder people are confused, our media never corrects the record. It is left to places like DU, where we are after all preaching to the choir, to find these little nuggets.

[girl gone mad]

8. Shows just how far to the right we've gone.

Back then Democrats vehemently opposed the mandate.