be a sliding scale tax credit to cover the costs of people getting exchanges. the third thing he proposed was the notion there should be an individual mandate. he wanted to realized if they didn t mandaty proposed employer mandates and pro posed the notion that people shouldn t lose their coverage as preexisting conditions. those were not democratic ideas. those were proposed by republican leadership actually and the congress at the time. and when governor romney developed his own plan in massachusetts i don t know, a decade or so later, he borrowed liberally from those ideas.