{"id":6848,"date":"2010-09-01T23:02:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T03:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2010-09-02T10:30:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T14:30:58","slug":"individual-mandate-for-thee-but-not-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6848\/individual-mandate-for-thee-but-not-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual Mandate for Thee, But Not for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that even liberals are starting to recoil at Obamacare now that it&#8217;s reality instead of a gauzy fantasy? That&#8217;s at least the case for Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden. Wyden, long a major advocate for the individual mandate (compelling citizens to buy health insurance under penalty of fine or imprisonment), has suddenly decided that the provision &#8212; which he voted for &#8212; is good enough for the rest of the country, but not for the Beaver State.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/01\/wyden-pushing-for-oregon-_n_701785.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Huffington Post<\/a>, Wyden wrote a letter to the Oregon Health Authority that included the following passage:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In addition, Senate Finance Committee Counsel has stated that a state that can meet the general coverage requirements of the PPACA <strong>can obtain a Federal waiver under Section 1332 without a requirement that individuals purchase health insurance. Because you and I believe that the heart of real health reform is affordability and not mandates, I wanted to bring this feature of Section 1332 to the attention of you and the legislature<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Affordability and not mandates, huh? Sounds like a defensible outlook. Too bad Oregon&#8217;s senior senator couldn&#8217;t bring it to mind while casting his vote. Oh well. Not a big deal when only 49 other states have to suffer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could it be that even liberals are starting to recoil at Obamacare now that it&#8217;s reality instead of a gauzy fantasy? That&#8217;s at least the case for Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden. Wyden, long a major advocate for the individual mandate (compelling citizens to buy health insurance under penalty of fine or imprisonment), has suddenly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,311,35,182],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-ron-wyden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}