Prior to '08, Mitt Romney said the Individual Mandate is "Personal Responsibility. Is it not the same now?

Yes. It's ironic because the idea of the individual mandate was originally a Republican idea and was only rejected by Republicans after Obama adopted it. Strangely, if a Republican president had signed the exact same law you would have probably seen Democrats bitterly opposing it and Republicans supporting it. Such is the nature of modern partisanship.

Also, regarding the comment from a person above me. I don't get the hullabaloo about the "tax" thing. Who cares if the penalty is technically extracted as a tax? What difference does that make as far as the substantive impact of the law goes?

Yes it is definitely taking responsibililty for your own heatlh care but prior to the Obama health care law, 30 million people could not afford to buy insurance or got rejected because of ill health. The mandate using state insurance exchanges gives everyone a chance to buy insurance and get a generous tax credit subsidy if you earn under $88K.

Chief Justice Roberts for some reason decided the individual mandate would be called a tax so it could be constitutional under Congress powers to tax. Is that what the uproar is, whether you call the mandate to buy insurance a tax or not? It is not a payroll tax. It is a requirement to be insured, however you accomplish it by 2014.

Obama is the one who said that Obamacare/the mandate is NOT a tax.

Who is the flip flopper now? Or is this just Obama "evolving" again? lmao

Typical delusional libtard.

Enjoy your welfare sucker.