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The Heritage Foundation was never elected by the American people. What they think is irrelevant.

Nope. But they authored a proposal centered around an individual mandate to purchase health insurance. It didn't gain any steam in 1989, but it was introduced to Congress in 1993 by Senator Don Nickles (R-OK) and Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) as S. 1743 and H.R. 3698.

I invoked the Heritage Foundation on purpose because most people consider that group as the epitome of conservatism.

 

[RickN]

Nope. But they authored a proposal centered around an individual mandate to purchase health insurance. It didn't gain any steam in 1989, but it was introduced to Congress in 1993 by Senator Don Nickles (R-OK) and Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL) as S. 1743 and H.R. 3698.

I invoked the Heritage Foundation on purpose because most people consider that group as the epitome of conservatism.

How many Republicans supported it is the real question.

Look guys, people from both parties come up with dumb ideas and then turn against them. The Dems got us into as many wars as the Republicans have but the Republicans are called the war mongers, many more Dems fought against the civil rights movement but the Republicans are labeled as against civil rights, the Dems act more racist but the Republicans are the ones called racist. Just because somebody on one side proposes something does not mean the whole party agrees.

As for going back to the Bush ideas, things were a whole lot better before the Dems took over congress, but not to long after they did we started seeing the first signs of real trouble.

To be fair, it is not all the Dems fault any more then all the Republicans and this has been building for several decades. In the 2 years Obama has been in office they have just made things worse.