{"id":340,"date":"2013-09-30T12:26:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=340"},"modified":"2013-09-30T12:26:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T17:26:51","slug":"the-tortuous-history-of-conservatives-and-the-individual-mandate-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"The Tortuous History of Conservatives and the Individual Mandate &#8211; Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=The+Tortuous+History+of+Conservatives+and+the+Individual+Mandate+-+Forbes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=340\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2012\/02\/07\/the-tortuous-conservative-history-of-the-individual-mandate\/\">The Tortuous History of Conservatives and the Individual Mandate &#8211; Forbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Forbes.com article provides a history of the &#8220;individual mandate:, the component of Obamacare that requires each American purchase health insurance. \u00a0As the article recounts, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea design to achieve near-universal health care coverage while maintaining a private health care system. \u00a0In the early 90&#8217;s, House Republicans pushed the individual mandate as the alternative to Hillarycare, which would have implemented a Medicare-style single-payer (i.e. government sponsored) approach to universal health care.<\/p>\n<p>It is ironic that the individual mandate, which is now opposed by the same people who once championed it, may be the last hope for a near-universal private health care system. \u00a0In opposing Obamacare and its individual mandate, Republicans may be dooming the future prospects of a private industry approach to providing near-universal health care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tortuous History of Conservatives and the Individual Mandate &#8211; Forbes. This Forbes.com article provides a history of the &#8220;individual mandate:, the component of Obamacare that requires each American purchase health insurance. \u00a0As the article recounts, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea design to achieve near-universal health care coverage while maintaining a private health care system. \u00a0In the early 90&#8217;s, House Republicans pushed the individual mandate as the alternative to Hillarycare, which would have implemented a Medicare-style single-payer (i.e. government sponsored) approach to universal health care. It is ironic that the individual mandate, which is now opposed by \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=340\"> Continue reading this post <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health_care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}