Even Liberals Admit: Obamacare’s Unpopular Mandate “Clearly Rebuked”
Writing on his Washington Post blog, liberal activist Greg Sargent admitted that last night’s referendum in Ohio regarding health care freedom was a rebuke to Obamacare’s unpopular individual mandate. Specifically, he took issue with Democrat Senator Sherrod Brown’s assertion that the referendum succeeded because “the language [of the referendum] was confusing:”
Here’s the language in Issue 3:
1. In Ohio, no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system.
2. In Ohio, no law or rule shall prohibit the purchase or sale of health care or health insurance.
3. In Ohio, no law or rule shall impose a penalty or fine for the sale or purchase of healthcare or health insurance.
A Yes vote on this does seem to be a clear rebuke of the type of individual mandate Obama’s health reform law contained.
The fact that even a liberal activist was forced to admit this “rebuke” – and contradict a Democrat senator in the process – shows the depth of the “shellacking” against the law’s unpopular individual mandate, and (many would argue) the 2700-page law itself. And as to Senator Brown’s assertion that the voters were “confused” by the mandate issue, some might alternatively suggest that actually the voters of Ohio took Speaker Pelosi’s suggestion, found out what was in the bill after Democrats passed it, and decided to deliver a “clear rebuke” as a result.