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Huntsman was "comfortable" with [insurance] mandate
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 31, 2011 07:40pm |
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| Author | Ben Smith |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 1, 2011 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The conservative blog Verum Serum digs up a 2007 Jon Huntsman clip that suggests he was open to an individual mandate during his term as governor.
"I'm comfortable with a requirement -- you can call it whatever you want, but at some point we're going to have to get serious about how we deal with this issue," said Huntsman, in response to a question about a mandate. "There is a mandate today, let us not forget, and it's called the emergency room. You show up at the emergency room and you get covered. Who pays the bills? Taxpayers pay the bills."
The video is another mark of how uncontroversial the mandate was before Obama, reluctantly, embraced it.
Huntsman has denied he ever supported a mandate as part of his own health care plan, which was never passed which passed without a mandate. Tim Pawlenty expressed openness to, and reservations about, a mandate in the same period, which was soon after the passage of Mitt Romney's MassCare. |
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