AP reports Obama's move from opposing an individual mandate as a candidate to his embrace of the mandate as president is a move to the left even though (a) he embraced the mandate as an alternative to the single payer and public options he had earlier espoused (a move to the right), and (b) the primary purpose of the mandate is to protect insurance companies from the costs associated with consumer protections. The consumer protections may be liberal, but requiring ordinary people to contribute to the profits of businessmen is not - especially when those businessmen are making profit by virtue of their position as middlemen for life saving medical care without adding any value to the system.
False-Equivalence Watch: The Platonic-Ideal Form - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic
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