Obama Backs Off Individual Mandate for States

From NEWSMAX:

President Barack Obama, under fire from the courts, Congress and GOP governors over the individual mandate, appeared for the first time on Monday to back off somewhat from the controversial federal mandate that all citizens must have health insurance coverage.

“If you have a better way of doing it, help yourself,” Obama said during a meeting with the nation’s governors. “Go ahead, take that route.”….

A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 67 percent of voters would like to see the individual mandate jettisoned from the Affordable Care Act. But the entire edifice of healthcare reform rests on the assumption that the costs of the entitlement would be spread across all citizens’ policies…

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