Yes, it IS. You can argue all day, keep calling me names and repeat all the lies Republicans, Fox News and right wing pundits filled your head with, it still doesn't make their propaganda true.
As a matter of FACT, what Democrats passed in 2010 was almost a carbon copy of what Republican's proposed back in 1993 when they tried to blow up Clinton's efforts to reform health care. That includes a BIG Republican idea...THE INDIVIDUAL MANDATE
If I keep showing you that Republicans and Fox are lying, will you just continue to watch and parrot, watch and parrot, watch and parrot?
Full Summary of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Chart: Comparing Health Reform Bills: Democrats and Republicans 2009, Republicans 1993
The Thirty Year History Of Republicans Supporting the Individual Mandate
Republican support for the individual mandate policy goes back further than this health care reform discussion. Earlier this month, Julie Rovner profiled a history of the policy dating back to the 1980′s
In fact, says Len Nichols of the New America Foundation, the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea. “It was invented by Mark Pauly to give to George Bush Sr. back in the day, as a competition to the employer mandate focus of the Democrats at the time.”…
“We called this responsible national health insurance,” says Pauly. “There was a kind of an ethical and moral support for the notion that people shouldn’t be allowed to free-ride on the charity of fellow citizens.”
The policy was originally included in many Republican proposals including the proposals during the Clinton administration. The leading GOP alternative plan known as the 1994 Consumer Choice Health Security Act included the requirement to purchase insurance. Further, this proposal was based off of a 1990 Heritage Foundation proposal outlined a quality health system where “government would require, by law every head of household to acquire at least a basic health plan for his or her family.”