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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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From: Kevin Rose3/25/2010 2:22:15 PM
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Yet another example of Republican hypocrisy...have they no shame?

Health bill included big Republican idea: individual mandate
McClatchy Newspapers


By John Dorschner, The Miami Herald John Dorschner, The Miami Herald – Wed Mar 24, 3:36 pm ET

The lawsuit against the health care overhaul filed Tuesday by Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is focused on a provision that has long been advocated by conservatives, big business and the insurance industry.

The lawsuit by McCollum, a candidate for governor, and 12 other attorneys general, focuses on the provision that virtually all Americans will need to have health insurance by 2014 or face penalties.

The lawsuit calls this an "unprecedented encroachment on the liberty of individuals." It states the Constitution doesn't authorize such a mandate, the proposed tax penalty is unlawful and is an "unprecedented encroachment on the sovereignty of the states."

"The truth is this is a Republican idea," said Linda Quick , president of the South Florida Hospital and Health care Association. She said she first heard the concept of the "individual mandate" in a Miami speech in the early 1990s by Sen. John McCain , a conservative Republican from Arizona , to counter the "Hillarycare" the Clintons were proposing.

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