Health Mandate: Not a Slippery Slope
Scott Lemieux, American Prospect
If we needed any more proof that there's a conservative consensus that the individual mandate -- the provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that levies a tax on anyone without health care -- is an unprecedented affront to both the Constitution and individual freedom, we got it at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and other keynote speakers used it to go after not only Obama, but also at 2012 GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, who in 2006 signed a health-care law with a similar provision as its centerpiece in...
If we needed any more proof that there's a conservative consensus that the individual mandate -- the provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that levies a tax on anyone without health care -- is an unprecedented affront to both the Constitution and individual freedom, we got it at Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the weekend. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty and other keynote speakers used it to go after not only Obama, but also at 2012 GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, who in 2006 signed a health-care law with a similar provision as its centerpiece in...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/02/14/health_mandate_not_a_slippery_slope_250513.html