<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span>“[The individual mandate had] been at the heart of Republican</span><br><span>health-care reforms for two decades. The mandate made its</span><br><span>political début in a 1989 Heritage Foundation brief titled ‘Assuring</span><br><span>Affordable Health Care for All Americans,’ as a counterpoint to the </span><br><span>single-payer system and the employer mandate, which were favored</span><br><span>in Democratic circles…. The mandate made its first legislative</span><br><span>appearance in 1993, in the Health Equity and Access Reform Today</span><br><span>Act—the Republicans’ alternative to President Clinton’s health-</span><br><span>reform bill.” —Ezra Klein, The New Yorker </span><br><span></span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">------------------------------------</span><br><span> </span><br><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; "><h2 property="dc:title" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-size: 24px; clear: both; font-weight: normal; ">"We Hate It 'Cause It's His: A Republican Sea Chantey"</h2><div><br></div><div>By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div></span></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>"Oh, why do we so loathe this thing?</span><br><span>We used to love it so.</span><br><span>We used to say, “For health reform</span><br><span>This is the way to go.”</span><br><span>We said it was free enterprise</span><br><span>(And we explained just how).</span><br><span>If this was our idea back then,</span><br><span>How could we hate it now? </span><br><span> </span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. We hate it ’cause it’s his.</span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. That’s what our hatred is.</span><br><span>You needn’t be a whiz, lads, to ace this simple quiz.</span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. We hate it ’cause it’s his. </span><br><span> </span><br><span>If Mitt’s plan was the model here,</span><br><span>What caused this great upheaval?</span><br><span>If Mitt’s makes sense, then why is this</span><br><span>Just socialistic evil? </span><br><span>If this approach once seemed so good</span><br><span>That all of us were for it,</span><br><span>How come it is so wicked now</span><br><span>That all of us abhor it? </span><br><span> </span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. We hate it ’cause it’s his.</span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. That’s what our hatred is.</span><br><span>You needn’t be a whiz, lads, to ace this simple quiz.</span><br><span>We hate it ’cause it’s his, lads. We hate it ’cause it’s his."</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><span></span> <br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Unknown</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br></div></body></html>