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The individual mandate makes sense as a matter of being the essential premise of health care. what do you make of that, steve? >> also news today that tim pawlenty three or four years ago was saying pretty much the same thing, he was open to the idea of the individual mandate. the history of that suggests the individual mandate was pretty much a conservative idea. as recently as 15 years ago in the united states congress, you had a fair number of republicans in the senate like bob dole, orrin hatch, saying you know what, if we're doing health care reform, do it with the individual mandate. it ...