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THE "AFFORDABLE CARE ACT": The Supreme Court Debates the Health Insurance Mandate
• http://www.globalresearch.ca, by Kevin Zeese
As the Washington Post reports, the mandate was a Republican idea that originated with conservatives: “The tale begins in the late 1980s, when conservative economists such as Mark Pauly, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of business, were searching for ways to counter liberal calls for government-sponsored universal health coverage.