Reply #8: Republicans supported a health insurance mandate in 1994

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Republicans supported a health insurance mandate in 1994

Wed Apr 14, 2010


So it is never a huge surprise when Republican are lying hypocrites. It's in their DNA. And I'm sure people here already know that. Just wanted to add some more facts.

"So while President Clinton was pushing for employers to cover their workers in his 1993 bill, John Chafee of Rhode Island, along with 20 other GOP senators and Rep. Bill Thomas of California, introduced legislation that instead featured an individual mandate. Four of those Republican co-sponsors — Hatch, Charles Grassley of Iowa, Robert Bennett of Utah and Christopher Bond of Missouri — remain in the Senate today."

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Mr Death Panel changed his mind, but he had a really good reason:

"The truth is this is a Republican idea," said Linda Quick, president of the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association. She said she first heard the concept of the "individual mandate" in a Miami speech in the early 1990s by Sen. John McCain, a conservative Republican from Arizona, to counter the "Hillarycare" the Clintons were proposing.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/14/101048/204