Mandatory insurance actually Republicans' idea

Shocker!

As the new health care law makes it mandatory to buy insurance from greedy corporations, it turns out this portion was the Republicans' idea all along - as if that wasn't clear already.

A health care official in Florida says she first heard of the idea when John McCain endorsed it in the '90s. McCain was contrasting his proposal versus the Clinton administration's health care package.

Mitt Romney endorsed mandatory insurance in a Wall Street Journal piece in 2006.

The Business Roundtable - a secret society of right-wing CEO's - later announced its support for it. Right-wing former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson backed it as well.

Of course they did. In conservaworld, everything is mandatory - unless you're a corporation, that is. Conservaworld is a land of Allowed Clouds. You can't do this. You can't do that.

Now, however, Republican attorney generals in several states are trying to have the entire law ruled unconstitutional because of this provision - even though it's a provision the GOP supported.

One almost suspects they supported adding it just so they'd have ammo against the whole law.

In the unlikely event that mandatory health insurance is ruled unconstitutional, then at least that means mandatory car insurance (which is just as much of a rip-off) must be too, right? Maybe the attorney generals who are suing might end up getting what they didn't bargain for.

(Source: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/03/23/90948/that-health-mandate-gop-is-suing.html)