Seems many of these republican candidates were "for" a mandate, until Obama was able to get it passed... clo
May 27, 2011
Categories:Healthcare.
Pawlenty was 'open to' mandate, a 'worthy goal,' in '06 speech
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty said in a 2006 speech that mandated health insurance was a "potentially helpful" -- but incomplete -- solution to the problem of the uninsured.
Pawlenty described a Massachusetts-style mandate in his speech as "a worthy goal and one that we're
intrigued by and I think at least open to," but suggested that the central health care problem was not forcing people to buy insurance but helping them afford it.
Mandatory insurance has become the central legal and philosophical target for conservative critics of President Obama's health care overhaul, putting Mitt Romney -- whose MassCare, passed earlier that year, was long viewed by both parties as a model -- in a particularly difficult position. But Romney wasn't the only presidential contender open to a mandate. Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, according to a top former aide, was "supportive" of the mandate as part of his own health care plan, which was rejected by the state legislature. (Huntsman now denies he favored a mandate, and the former aide walked the assertion back.)
for complete article:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0511/Pawlenty_was_open_to_mandate_a_worthy_goal_in_06_speech.html
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