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kentuck

(111,069 posts)
Sun Nov 17, 2013, 01:12 PM Nov 2013

The Heritage Plan for health insurance reform.

And what did this have to do with Jim DeMint taking over the Heritage Foundation?
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http://www.standard.net/stories/2012/03/21/obamacare-demonized-right-had-conservative-roots

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But Heritage Foundation officials and experts note that Obama significantly expanded that concept to include a strong federal role in regulating the mandate and insurance exchanges. Indeed, Heritage president Ed Feulner issued a quick and strong rejection of Obama's comments in a 2010 interview when he said his administration's health-care program was similar to Romney's Massachusetts plan, and, "a lot of the ideas in terms of the exchange, just being able to pool and improve the purchasing power of individuals in the insurance market, that originated from the Heritage Foundation."

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Time out. The Pulitzer-winning Politifact.com, created by the Tampa Bay Times and its Washington bureau chief Bill Adair, did a fine job of sorting through all this -- even though its work has not always been sufficiently noted by news media colleagues. It asked 10 conservative ideologues not affiliated with Heritage if they thought Obama was accurate in asserting his health-care plan had Heritage roots. Nine thought Obama's statement was "reasonably accurate," Politifact.com reported.

Hmmm. So what if Obama had never been elected president and a Republican president or Congress had proposed a health-care reform plan strikingly similar to Obama's? What would leading Republicans and conservative ideologues be saying about it?

American Conservative magazine senior editor Daniel McCarthy discussed just that with Politifact.com. "... I don't imagine Ed Feulner would be complaining at all if a Republican president or a Republican Congress had passed a plan that deviated from the Heritage blueprint to the same degree that Obama's bill has," McCarthy told Politifact. "... the overall approach is similar to policies Heritage has long championed, including the individual mandate as well as the insurance exchanges.

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