Let me get this straight - how did we come to adopting a REPUBLICAN idea as our own?

[HiPointDem]

34. On edit: I see I *am* wrong about Gingrich originating the mandate. Heritage it is.

History of the Individual Health Insurance Mandate, 1989-2010
Republican Origins of Democratic Health Care Provision

Heritage Foundation's 1989 report is considered to be the conceptual origin of the health insurance mandate.

The concept of the individual health insurance mandate is considered to have originated in 1989 at the conservative Heritage Foundation. In 1993, Republicans twice introduced health care bills that contained an individual health insurance mandate. Advocates for those bills included prominent Republicans who today oppose the mandate including Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Robert Bennett (R-UT), and Christopher Bond (R-MO). In 2007, Democrats and Republicans introduced a bi-partisan bill containing the mandate.

In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama was opposed to the individual mandate. He stated the following in a Feb. 28, 2008 interview on the Ellen DeGeneres show about his divergent views with Hillary Clinton:

"Both of us want to provide health care to all Americans. There’s a slight difference, and her plan is a good one. But, she mandates that everybody buy health care. She’d have the government force every individual to buy insurance and I don’t have such a mandate because I don’t think the problem is that people don’t want health insurance, it’s that they can’t afford it..

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=004182


It really *is* a Barnum and Bailey world, isn't it?

Both sides of our so-called "political spectrum" want the mandate. When it's the Republicans turn, they put it out and the Democrats are against it. Give people time to forget where it came from and the Democrats put it up and the Republicans are supposedly against it.

But one way or another, the ruling class will get their mandate. They just keep pushing until they get what they want, using psy-ops to sell it to us.