The Individual Mandate Hillary Clinton Opposed in 1993 Is the Same Individual Mandate She Supports Now. "Hillary Clinton has now introduced Health Care 2.0, and - lo and behold! - it is a direct descendant of the plan she chose not to support in 1993...
Clinton said the models for her current proposal were the 1993 Republican plan and the individual-mandate plan passed in Massachusetts by former Governor Mitt Romney. She said one of her top health care advisers, Laurie Rubiner, worked on both the Chafee and Massachusetts plans." The article noted that supporting an individual mandate is "a big change for the Clintonistas," since in 1993, Clinton "railed" against individual mandates.
FLASHBACK: 1993
Hillary Clinton Said That An Individual Mandate For Health Insurance Coverage Would Create Additional Problems," Lead to Arbitrary Cut-Offs for Eligibility, And Require the IRS to Oversee Our Health Care System.
In a speech to the Group Health Association of America, Clinton said that "The individual mandate create some additional problems, at least as we analyze them. It makes it very difficult to determine and monitor who is in the system and who is out. It would require tracking individuals as they move in and out of jobs, as they move in and out of the insurance market. And it would mean, if you provided a subsidy scheme to support low-wage individuals, a determination as to when their income reached some arbitrary level as to what kind of subsidy they would still be entitled to. It would require, in our view, the IRS to engage in an enormous administrative oversight of our health care system."
Clinton Said An Individual Mandate Might Not Work; Pointed to Example of Mandatory Auto Insurance.
In her speech to the Group Health Association of America, Clinton pointed to mandatory auto insurance requirements as a reason why the individual mandate might not work. She said, "The only examples we have of individual mandates are those like auto insurance requirements in many states where, in spite of the fact that the state has access to all drivers through the licensing process, literally thousands and even hundreds of thousands of drivers remain uninsured in states with such an individual mandate." Speech to the Group Health Association of America, 2/15/94
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