Hillary Clinton has always been to Obama's left on economics

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109. To mandate that you buy insurance from a Private Insurer is THE Republican plan

You are mixing arguments. Hilary's plan was exactly RomneyCare which started as Nixon's health care plan than was adopted by the Heritage thinkers. It is pretty much what we ended up with. However, in no sense of the word, is it a left plan. It is the republican plan and was for years.

The left plan was more government involvement. Now, if you want to pass a rightward leaning plan, where Insurer's have to accept every applicant (no pre existing conditions), you need some form of a mandate. However, thats only in a right leaning solution to the health care problems we were facing. This is your confusion, I can agree that if you want insurer's to forgo pre-existing conditions, everyone has to be insured (i.e. a mandate). However, thats only in a rightward leaning insurance plan.

In that regard, Obama's plan although more left because it did not mandate that you buy from private corporations and you could buy from a Government started Insurer (the public option) really does not work. If you want to run health care through insurance company's you need some form of a mandate. However, anyone advocating that solution is coming from the right side of the political spectrum. NOT THE LEFT. HRC did not really attack BHO's health care plan. BHO did attack HRC's in debates. He attacked it from the left because he attacked the mandate. I did not really think his plan made sense but it was left of HRC because it did not have a mandate and did have a Public Option as its core proposal. When in office. he abandoned his own plan for the republican plan basically in the form proposed by HRC. However, again it is not a left solution to health care. It is a republican corporate right solution and has been the solution of the corporatists for years.