Republicans and their supporters have been bashing the individual mandate so loudly and so vociferously that it’s easy to forget this outrage is a relatively recent phenomenon. It also says a lot about the people who will suffer as their efforts to unwind the Affordable Care Act go forward. But that changed a few years later, after Bill Clinton became president and focused on health care as his big domestic policy priority. Desperate to show they had an alternative that would achieve the same basic goals, 20 Republican senators co-sponsored a bill that included an individual mandate. But the ideological composition of the Republican Party has changed too, especially in the last few years.

Source: Huffington Post November 25, 2017 10:41 UTC