By ED BRAYTON - DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS
Added: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:59:49 UTC
It seems that Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are not the only candidates trying to pretend that they never took a position in favor of an individual mandate to buy health insurance. Rick Santorum did it too, and to make it even better, he did it in 1994 when that was part of the Republican alternative to the Clinton administration?s health care reform plan. ThinkProgress has the excerpts from articles written in the Pennsylvania press during that campaign. From Pennsylvania?s Morning Call on April 7, 1994:
U.S. Rep. Rick Santorum, R-Pittsburgh area, and Joe Watkins, a Philadelphia businessman who worked in the Bush White House, are seeking the Republican Senate nomination, creating the only true Senate primary race?.Santorum and Watkins both called for a ?comprehensive restructuring? of health care. But they differed sharply on what elements should comprise a basic benefits package.
Watkins would include mental health services, long-term care, prescription drug coverage, dental services and preventive care such as immunizations. Santorum would not. Both reject abortion services. Santorum and Watkins both oppose having businesses provide health care for their employees. Instead, they would require individuals to purchase insurance.
And on May 2, 1994:
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This has been the pattern in this race all along. One candidate after another now claim that the very position they took in years past is proof that Obama is a socialist out to destroy America. Funny that. Read more
Source: http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644665-santorum-and-the-health-insurance-mandate
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