The GOP opposes the HCR because of mandatory insurance, but wants to make it mandatory for Medicare?

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42420994/ns/politics/

The plan would replace the current open-ended system of Medicare payments with one in which the federal government would subsidize people to purchase insurance.

[supernova]

1. Their plan is simply to oppose

whatever the Dems offer. They don't have to be rhetorically consistent in their POV as long as they simply exist to checkmate the Dems.

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2. Mandatory is exactly what they want, as long as it's mandatory money to private industry.

If they can engineer a situation where everybody has to pay premiums to their insurance industry puppet masters (or, any other industry), that's their wet dream.

[Edweird]

3. The 'Individual Mandate" is, and has always been, FAR RW policy.

Any opposition to it during the "HCR" was purely knee jerk partisanship.