New Romney Adviser Backed Individual Mandate

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http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/04/05/new_romney_adviser_backed_individual_mandate.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PoliticalWire+%28Political+Wire%29

Mitt Romney's new campaign adviser, Ed Gillespie, was a lobbyist for a federal individual health insurance mandate two years before President Obama embraced the idea, the Washington Examiner reports.

"So while Romney can make a federalist distinction about himself -- that he supports some state health-insurance mandates, but not federal health-insurance mandates -- Romney advisor Gillespie (who did not immediately return my call or email seeking comment) seems stuck admitting he was a for a federal-level mandate when insurers were paying him to be for it, and is against it now that Obama is defending it."


Mitt's new advisor lobbied for national mandate
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In 2007, the Coaltion to Advance Healthcare Reform hired Quinn Gillespie to lobby for its agenda, which included an employer mandate and an individual mandate. As Safway CEO and CAHR founder Steve Hurd put it, "every American should be required to carry health insurance."

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/mitts-new-advisor-lobbied-natl-ind-mandate/466396

[Ian David]

1. I hope someone is posting stuff like this on those two sites that we don't mention. n/t