Reply #18: Nice refutation

[sandnsea]

Jump up and down some more and see if it makes anything they say more true. *sigh*

Mandates don't make anything universal. Vagrancy laws didn't end homelessness. It's the biggest fairy tale of the entire campaign.

Here is what John Edwards' plan REALLY SAID about mandates. HIS plan wasn't based on mandates at all.

"Once these steps have been taken, requiring all American residents to get insurance."

His plan was to reduce costs, implement a public plan, provide assistance, and make health care affordable.

The mandates were to come AFTER all the other programs had been implemented, which is exactly what Obama has said. The problem isn't that people are trying to game the system, the problem is people can't afford to participate. Edwards got that, he just didn't have the integrity to stand up to Krugman and tell him he had misunderstood and was wrong.