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MSNBC’s Ed Schultz can be added to the list of liberals who strongly oppose the individual mandate in the Obama-Reid-Pelosi government-run health care experiment. He even calls it a “form of socialism!”

Yet Schultz isn’t alone. Monday, far-left blogger Jane Hamsher referenced the criticism in a list of 10 reasons to oppose Reid’s bill. And, Democracy for America, a group founded by Howard Dean, had this to say:

What they are actually talking about is something called the “individual mandate.” That's a section of the law that requires every single American buy health insurance or break the law and face penalties and fines. So, the bill doesn't actually “cover” 30 million more Americans - instead it makes them criminals if they don't buy insurance from the same companies that got us into this mess.

Of course, the most famous liberal critic of the individual mandate is President Obama. While campaigning against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary last year, Obama said:

Senator Clinton believes the only way to achieve universal health care is to force everybody to purchase it...and my belief is the reason that people don't have it is not because they don't want it, but because they can't afford it.

He was right then. Ed Schultz and Jane Hamsher are right now.  Too bad for the far left – and the rest of the country – Obama is so willing to sell them out to just “get it done.”