Following up on the revealing Mitt Romney emails regarding the then Massachusetts Governor’s support of the individual health insurance mandate, the Associated Press has a story out today about the only state that does mandates its citizens to have health insurance or pay a tax penalty—Massachusetts. Under the Seatlepi headline,…
Individual-Mandate Hypocrisy
Why aren’t conservatives complaining about this South Carolina insurance law? By Eliot Spitzer Slate Sept. 30, 2011 The “individual mandate” in President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has provoked incredible enthusiasm among the act’s supporters and towering rage in its opponents. The obligation either to purchase insurance or to pay a…