New health insurance requirement ... was GOP idea - Yahoo! News

New health insurance requirement ... was GOP idea - Yahoo! News: "'The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer was a Republican idea,' said health economist Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. In 1991, he published a paper that explained how a mandate could be combined with tax credits — two ideas that are now part of Obama's law. Pauly's paper was well-received — by the George H.W. Bush administration."