Phil Kerpen Recommend this article   Obama campaigned against
the individual mandate. In fact, it's the issue he won the
nomination on. Obama said four years ago: "The main difference
between my plan and Senator Clinton's plan is that she'd require
the government to force you to buy health insurance." He even
ran attack ads bashing Clinton on the issue.  Once Obama was in
the White House, though, his tune changed. The mandate became
the centerpiece of a corrupt deal that Obama cut with the
insurance industry - in brief, the insurance industry agreed to
accept the ban on excluding pre-existing conditions and several
other expensive, onerous regulations in exchange for a mandate
forcing everyone to buy their product, and hundreds of billions
of dollars of subsidies to further sweeten the pot.  Ron
Suskind, who was granted insider access to the White House,
explained that Obama made the deal even though "Obama, never
much for the mandate, was concerned about legal challenges."  He
should have been more than conc