The Republican-controlled Missouri House has officially voiced opposition to an individual mandate to purchase health insurance.
Last weekend, Missouri Republicans lauded retiring U.S. Senator Kit Bond. One of the speakers heaping praise on Bond was Catherine Hanaway, who once served as an aide to the Senator and subsequently as Speaker of the State House. Hanaway claimed that Bond was “the inventor of the modern Missouri Republican Party.”
Seventeen years ago, Bond was one of 21 — not two or three, but 21 — Senate Republicans who supported a bill that included … wait for it … an individual mandate.