Jon Huntsman, circa 2007, expressing comfort with the idea of an individual mandate on health care.
"I'm comfortable with a requirement -- you can call it whatever you want, but at some point we're going to have to get serious about how we deal with this issue."
Ben Smith:
The video is another mark of how uncontroversial the mandate was before Obama, reluctantly, embraced it.
.... Tim Pawlenty expressed openness to, and reservations about, a mandate in the same period, which was soon after the passage of Mitt Romney's MassCare.
Vid via Verum Serum.
