Mitt’s new advisor lobbied for national [individual] mandate

Mitt Romney’s new advisor, Ed Gillespie, was a lobbyist for a federal individual mandate two years before President Obama embraced the idea.

In 2007, the Coaltion to Advance Healthcare Reform hired Quinn Gillespie to lobby for its agenda, which included an employer mandate and an individual mandate. As Safway CEO and CAHR founder Steve Hurd put it, “every American should be required to carry health insurance.”

The coalition was funded by insurers and large employers looking to offload costs, require people to buy their products, and hurt their competitors…