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Obama’s high-wire act on insurance mandate crashes

By Philip Klein
Published February 16, 2012 5:00am ET
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Obama’s high-wire act on insurance mandate crashes
President Obama has always struggled with his positioning on the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, and on Wednesday, his high wire act on the issue came crashing down.   As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama strongly opposed a requirement to purchase health insurance, which was one of the few substantive policy differences he […]

President Obama has always struggled with his positioning on the individual mandate to purchase health insurance, and on Wednesday, his high wire act on the issue came crashing down.

 

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