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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1219046" data-attributes="member: 40736">Too lazy to read the linked article?Republican support for the individual mandate&nbsp; As far as I have been able to find, Stuart’s 1989 brief is the first&nbsp; published proposal of an individual mandate in the context of&nbsp; private-sector-managed health systems. In 1991, Mark Pauly and others developed a proposal for George H.W. Bush that also included an individual mandate. While others&nbsp; credit Stanford economist Alain Enthoven with the idea, Enthoven’s&nbsp; earliest published reference to an individual mandate was an indirect&nbsp; one in the 1992 Jackson Hole paper.&nbsp; In 1992 and 1993, some Republicans in Congress, seeking an&nbsp; alternative to Hillarycare, used these ideas as a foundation for their&nbsp; own health-reform proposals. One such bill, the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993,&nbsp; or HEART, was introduced in the Senate by John Chafee (R., R.I.) and&nbsp; co-sponsored by 19 other Senate Republicans, including Christopher Bond,&nbsp; Bob Dole, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar, Alan Simpson, and&nbsp; Arlen Specter. Given that there were 43 Republicans in the Senate of&nbsp; the 103rd Congress, these 20 comprised nearly half of the Republican&nbsp; Senate Caucus at that time. The HEART Act proposed health insurance&nbsp; vouchers for low-income individuals, along with an individual mandate.&nbsp; Newt Gingrich, who was House Minority Leader in 1993, was also in favor of an individual mandate in those days. Gingrich continued to support a federal individual mandate as recently as May of last year.&nbsp; It would seem that 1990s conservatives weren’t concerned with the&nbsp; constitutional implications of allowing Congress to force people to buy a&nbsp; private product. “I don’t remember that being raised at all,” Mark Pauly told Ezra Klein last year.&nbsp; “The way it was viewed by the Congressional Budget Office in 1994 was,&nbsp; effectively, as a tax…So I’ve been surprised by that argument.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1219046, member: 40736"] Too lazy to read the linked article? [B]Republican support for the individual mandate[/B] As far as I have been able to find, Stuart’s 1989 brief is the first published proposal of an individual mandate in the context of private-sector-managed health systems. In 1991, Mark Pauly and others developed a proposal for George H.W. Bush that also included an individual mandate. While others credit Stanford economist Alain Enthoven with the idea, Enthoven’s earliest published reference to an individual mandate was an indirect one in the 1992 Jackson Hole paper. In 1992 and 1993, some Republicans in Congress, seeking an alternative to Hillarycare, used these ideas as a foundation for their own health-reform proposals. One such bill, the Health Equity and Access Reform Today Act of 1993, or HEART, was introduced in the Senate by John Chafee (R., R.I.) and co-sponsored by 19 other Senate Republicans, including Christopher Bond, Bob Dole, Chuck Grassley, Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar, Alan Simpson, and Arlen Specter. Given that there were 43 Republicans in the Senate of the 103rd Congress, these 20 comprised nearly half of the Republican Senate Caucus at that time. The HEART Act proposed health insurance vouchers for low-income individuals, along with an individual mandate. Newt Gingrich, who was House Minority Leader in 1993, was also in favor of an individual mandate in those days. Gingrich continued to support a federal individual mandate as recently as May of last year. It would seem that 1990s conservatives weren’t concerned with the constitutional implications of allowing Congress to force people to buy a private product. “I don’t remember that being raised at all,” Mark Pauly told Ezra Klein last year. “The way it was viewed by the Congressional Budget Office in 1994 was, effectively, as a tax…So I’ve been surprised by that argument.” [/QUOTE]

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