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This is the made-up talking point that allows Democrats and lefties to gasp in

astonishment that Republicans and conservatives would reject their very own plan.
Probably the sole aspect of any plan favored by Heritage that might be found in
Obamacare would be the individual mandate - not a Heritage invention, of course, and
their version relied on incentives rather than penalties. The core of Heritage's discussion
was about the use of vouchers to replace both Medicare and Medicaid; it looks like that
central idea somehow was left out of Obamacare. And of course there was no employer
mandate to subsidize health insurance - no Republican or conservative plan ever required
more than simply offering group insurance, and none had any calculations regarding
percentages of income or full-time status. Most conservative plans attempted to break the
link between employment and insurance, which is an admirable goal and one that
Obamacare ignores - indeed, one could argue that we missed a once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to sever insurance and employment completely. Democrats seemed obsessed
with beating employers into submission instead of getting them out of the insurance
business.

Even smart lefties (my brother is one) parrot the absurd lie that "Obamacare was written
by Republicans!" You'd think they would have been more proud of it.

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