The Conservative Health Insurance Reform

So, in 1993, President Clinton embarked on an attempt to improve healthcare in the United States to better serve the citizenry. He was relentlessly attacked and mischaracterized by conservatives, and ultimately failed to pass reform. One of the weapons in the conservative arsenal was a plan that they put forward to mandate that every US citizen purchase private insurance. They went so far as to have ultra-conservative Supreme Court Justice Scalia make a case for the Constitutionality of their insurance mandate.

belowthebeltway.com/2010/03/30/justice-scalia-may-have-already-made-the-constitutional-case-for-insurance-mandates

Now that Congress has passed, and President Obama has signed, a health insurance reform bill that contains the exact same insurance plan, those same conservatives are now saying that their original plan, the one that they had Justice Scalia deem Constitutional, is now somehow unConstitutional which makes the law invalid and the President a Socialist (or Marxist, or Communist, or Nazi - their hate-words keep changing)

Funny, that.