#mandate

And in terms of their crown jewel legislative achievement: who knew that when asked, 'will government impose a new federal mandate requiring middle class Americans to buy health insurance whether they can afford it or not?' The answer would be 'Yes we can!' ↗

— Artur Davis

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#afford #answer #asked #buy #class

The reason Gov. Romney passed Romneycare as governor of Massachusetts in 2006 was because many Republicans viewed health care reform, mandates and all, as a way to inoculate against Democratic charges that Republicans didn't care about people who lacked health insurance. ↗

— Ari Fleischer

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#against #because #care #charges #democratic

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. ↗

— Chuck Grassley

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#bipartisan #consensus #i #i believe #i believe that