Conservatives Run From the Individual Mandate They Once Embraced

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So what your saying is that the best idea the Dem's have is not their own! Only something the other guys are willing to let go! Humm!

No Mandate of GA 8:56PM March 23, 2012

First of all, I would like to address the comments of j o'gorman of my state (MD).
Please, can you define ANY of those ism's you just spouted? Do you have any idea what ANY of them really mean, or are you just gathering your info from people like Glenn Beck? By congressional "mandate" you are required to pay into a system that was built to take care of all Americans and that you yourself will hopefully one day be able to take advantage of. That is Social Security. You already are eligable for medicade and hopefully one day can use medicare.
Now, as far as the issue of the article; this is not big news to me, but I am glad that someone is finally calling out the Repubs for what they truly are, obstructionist liars who will say and do anything to subvert and usurp power from a duly democratically elected President. I THINK if you really read history and world politics, THAT is what Communists have done in the past! No one wants to say it or admit it, but since Obama started being noticed and was then elected, the cry to say NO to all things he wants to do, to block, without reason any legislation he tries to pass, and to demonize him are all based soley on the belief that a Black man should not be President of this country. It is racism and totally ridiculous. I have heard John McCain reverse himself on issues, Sarah (dumber than a box of rocks) Palin reverse herself on issues she has been coached to speak on, and Mitt Romney do the same thing. This is NOT what so called Regan politics was all about, not legendary party leaders like Eisenhower stood for. You were a Republican and you stood for doing what was right for the country and you did it from a conservative standpoint. These bag of fools that run around now declaring that they are tea partiers or Republicans just hate anything that Obama stands for, even if it agrees with what THEY stand for. The sad thing about it all is, if Obama were to come out and say he was against Healthcare, they would call him a flip flopper and all be in FAVOR of it, again. These so called party leaders sicken me and shoudl sicken ALL "real" conservatives who are NOT racist a-holes like Limbaugh, Beck and Palin. What happened to the GOP? You have been subverted from within!! Oh wait, isn't THAT a socialist way of doing things?

Joe the Reader of MD 10:32AM December 29, 2010

Why are you so afraid of telling the truth it is not individual mandates the Heritage Foundation is against it is the way they are implemented.
No where in the constitution is Congress granted the authority to mandate that individuals enter into a contract with a private party.
The argument is that a mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal government action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. Both the House and Senate versions of Obamacare would change this, creating a new precedent that the federal government can force you to buy a private service. These mandates would force all citizens to purchase a specified service that is heavily regulated by the federal government. This new mandate takes federal power to a new, unprecedented level. We all need to remember that the federal government is of limited powers and the Constitution does not authorize members of congress to take force citizens to buy heath insurance.

E Cabbra of OK 10:30AM May 10, 2010

@Ron W. Smith of UT
You're right - Conservatives are anti-democratic.
All their jargon is bs and is sad so many are so easily fooled by the conservative dominated media.

Lucy of CA 12:38AM April 22, 2010

I would much fight the costs of doctors and insurance companies, than incompotent beaurocrats of the govrnment which represents, socialism,communinism,leninism, maoism,marxism take your choice just read history. HISTORY which by the way is not covered properly in the present school curricula.

j o'gorman of MD 11:34AM April 21, 2010

Conservatives, if nothing else, are rigid. Their new mantras are "Liberty" and "Freedom," so how possibly can they like individual mandates in health care? Those would be anti-Liberty, anti-Freedom, and that's that.
All parts must fit in Conservatism. With their "big tent" approach to gaining voters, rigidity does pose problems on the meshing of parts front. If it's not that requiring people to buy insurance is a problem because it violates individual liberty/freedom, it's that trying to regulate anything at all violates their anti-regulation "principle," thus opening the door to all manner of problems--from Wall Street malfeasance to the misuse of firearms. Fitting all parts in Conservatism requires a lot of hammering of square pegs into round holes.
Just ask Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and the numerous others who are far into on-air justification of the oft-unjustifiable. It's quite a job, but it pays well thanks to an easily fooled cast of tens of millions.

Ron W. Smith of UT 5:48PM April 20, 2010

We have an inferior Health industry(nobody cares) We need to get back to healthcare where Doctors are allowed to care and the bottom line does not ration medical care,
This morning I heard that health of students is becoming a national security issues because students cannot pass the physical requirements to get in the armed forces.
Technology is great is it not?, However we need to make adjustments in our lives to take full advantage of technology and we need to stop relying on drugs to solve the problems we create by not adapting to our technology properly.
We need to move cars out of the city and ride bikes, skates or walk in city limits and make use of public transportation when necessary. Big cities would save money on transportation issues and the people would be healthier and need less drugs and would not be artificially healthy but healthy.
Don D. Brock

Don D. Brock of AZ 12:48PM April 20, 2010

We'll move toward a national single-payer system---not back toward the pre-reform status quo. The ONLY way you are going to get any cost control is to reduce what you pay to doctors and medical corporations. That will be done only by making the government-sized reimbursements to them be the only game in town for them.

Muser of NM 12:53AM April 20, 2010

"The Democratic mindset, we are all people trying to live and work together for the common good of all."
You really believe that? How old are you to be so naive?

Rich of CO 10:23PM April 19, 2010

Judge the parties by their actions.
The Republican mindset, screw everyone if means getting ahead. if you are stupid enough to trust us you deserve to be screwed.
The Democratic mindset, we are all people trying to live and work together for the common good of all.
The two forces are opposite, they are always fighting each other. Its the time old story of evil Versus good.

Frank L Wright of CA 10:13PM April 19, 2010