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Dean: Individual mandate not necessary

Governor Howard Dean told a crowd of brokerswho had slammed the former presidential candidates position on health carethat the individual mandate provision is one of the very large blunders of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and predicted the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional.

By Kathryn Mayer | Updated on May 10, 2012

SAN ANTONIO—Governor Howard Dean told a crowd of brokers—who had slammed the former presidential candidate’s position on health care—that the individual mandate provision is “one of the very large blunders” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and predicted the Supreme Court will rule it unconstitutional.

“It was never necessary in the president’s bill; they should have never put it in,” Dean told attendees Thursday morning at the Benefits Selling Expo in San Antonio, Texas. “Both Republicans and Democrats are all essentially libertarian; we hate to be told what to do by the government.”

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