During a debate on CNN between himself and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama had this to say:

“Uh, uh, Senator Clinton has a different approach. She believes that we have to, uh, force people who don’t have health insurance to buy it. Otherwise, there will be a lot of people who don’t get it. I don’t see those folks, and I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you’re gonna mandate, uh, the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable, then there’s gonna have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses, and they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don’t think is helping those without health insurance. That is a genuine difference.”

Gee, that seems a familiar concept....