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The Republican turn against universal health insurance coverage
by Idéfix Sun Jul 01, 2012 5:40 pm
Mitch McConnell came out and said today that it is not an issue that 30 million Americans don't have health insurance. This shows how the GOP has shifted over the years from a party that advocated expanding private medical insurance coverage, to one that wants to repeal a law that does just that. Here is an excellent article on that shift.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/30/the-republican-turn-against-universal-health-insurance/
Democrats and Republicans used to argue over how best to achieve universal coverage, but both agreed on the goal. The first president to propose a serious universal health-care plan was Harry Truman, a Democrat. The second was Richard Nixon, a Republican. In the 1990s, when President Bill Clinton was arguing for a national health-care system based on an employer mandate, Republicans were arguing for one based on an individual mandate...
Republicans sometimes like to present their support for the individual mandate as a youthful indiscretion, but as late as June 2009, Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, was telling Fox News that “there is a bipartisan consensus to have an individual mandate.”
... This, perhaps, is one of the clearest differences between the Republicans and Democrats in this election: health insurance for 45 million to 50 million people...
As the Republican Party has become more ideologically opposed to the goal of universal coverage, Democrats have become more flexible in their efforts to achieve it. They have compromised from single payer to an employer mandate to an individual mandate. They have sacrificed the public option. It has been a stark difference: As Democrats have shown themselves willing to strike new compromises to attain universal coverage, Republicans have turned against their own ideas.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/06/30/the-republican-turn-against-universal-health-insurance/
Democrats and Republicans used to argue over how best to achieve universal coverage, but both agreed on the goal. The first president to propose a serious universal health-care plan was Harry Truman, a Democrat. The second was Richard Nixon, a Republican. In the 1990s, when President Bill Clinton was arguing for a national health-care system based on an employer mandate, Republicans were arguing for one based on an individual mandate...
Republicans sometimes like to present their support for the individual mandate as a youthful indiscretion, but as late as June 2009, Charles Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, was telling Fox News that “there is a bipartisan consensus to have an individual mandate.”
... This, perhaps, is one of the clearest differences between the Republicans and Democrats in this election: health insurance for 45 million to 50 million people...
As the Republican Party has become more ideologically opposed to the goal of universal coverage, Democrats have become more flexible in their efforts to achieve it. They have compromised from single payer to an employer mandate to an individual mandate. They have sacrificed the public option. It has been a stark difference: As Democrats have shown themselves willing to strike new compromises to attain universal coverage, Republicans have turned against their own ideas.
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