tierney, leave us a shred of freedom. tierney in the pure ist form. if you want to see it, consider chuck grassley of iowa. hef one of the sponsors one of the republicans who sponsored the individual mandate bill. after president obama was sworn in to office as the health reform debate was getting underway, chuck gasly was still arguing for the individual mandate. when it comes to states requiring it for automobile insurance, the principle ought to lie the same way for health insurance because everybody has some health insurance costs. if you aren t insured there s no free lunch. i believes this a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates. a bipartisan con sense us is to have individual mandates. after president obama said chuck grassley, i agree with you. i m for an individual mandate,
responsibility to have coverage? is that correct? senator bond answer, that s correct. senator don nickels of oklahoma. we have an individual mandate. we say everybody in america has to provide insurance for themselves. they put out a plan that features an individual mandate as its main component. newt gingrich was for the mandate as recently as 2008. mitt romney not only clean upped an individual mandate as part of a health reform that he signed as governor of massachusetts, he came out in favor of a federal health care individual mandate back in 1994. back when it was a republican idea. he wanted the republican individual mandate idea not just fr massachusetts but the whole country. now that it s president obama who is for this thing, it s tyranny. leave us a shred of freedom.
correct. senator don nickels of oklahoma. we have an individual mandate. we say everybody in america has to provide insurance for themselves. they put out a plan that features an individual mandate as its main component. newt gingrich was for the mandate as recently as 2008. mitt romney not only clean upped an individual mandate as part of a health reform that he signed as governor of massachusetts, he came out in favor of a federal health care individual mandate back in 1994. back when it was a republican idea. he wanted the republican individual mandate idea not just fr massachusetts but the whole country. now that it s president obama who is for this thing, it s tyranny. leave us a shred of freedom. if you want to siee happen in
this is the daily rundown. i m chuck todd. a few more people are outside of the supreme court. welcome to the main event. in two hours the supreme court will turn to whether congress has the power to require almost all americans to buy health insurance or pay a penalty. the argument about the mandate is the core of the debate over the role of government which may be the most important question that the presidential election decides. and the argument that divides fairly neatly by party. yesterday, senate republicans railed against the requirement. it is a monumental, historic insertion of federal power if the government can say that. we re asking the government to, please, leave us a shred of freedom.