Soetoro: Individual Health Insurance Mandate 'Should Not Be Controversial'

[iOWNme]

Just like car insurance, you need to have health insurance. Then says that Republicans are the ones who first brought the 'individual mandate':

(He MUST have learned this at Law School)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZG4uRjXz_8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZG4uRjXz_8&feature=player_embedded

[dys]

Wow is he slick. I think he is the best public speaker that I've ever seen.

dys

[Glass]

A mandate is what they do in SanFran. Somehow I think the outcome of his mandate might be pretty similar.

[Twisted Titan]

Right up there with my dad fought in world war 2

[gunDriller]

A mandate is what they do in SanFran. Somehow I think the outcome of his mandate might be pretty similar.

in more ways than one.

info about the medical insurance version of the SF mandate.
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2009/03/30/gvsb0330.htm


SH!T, they got mandates for energy audits etc.

http://www.google.com/search?q=mandate+is+what+they+do+in+SanFran&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a


do they actually have a law about composting (the SF composting mandate) ?

http://goorganicgardening.com/compost/city-composting-a-mandate-san-franciscos-new-law-and-why-it-exists

i do a lot of composting but i sure as HELL would not welcome any official interference in my garden.

[jimswift]

"...you can't be a free rider on everybody else..."WTF Barry?, I was in line behind a few perfectly healthy "free rider's" in the grocery store yesterday that were purchasing 6 x 12-packs of soda, swiping cards that said EBT on it.