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Democrats are desperate to hide the facts of their government-run health care experiment. At a recent town hall meeting, liberal Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz went so far as to pretend that the individual mandate, which requires people to buy government-approved health insurance or pay a tax is just a choice: “We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance.” Watch her spin furiously.

We’d really like to know if the Congressman also thinks that it’s a requirement to pay your income tax at all? By the same crazy logic, is there no requirement to refrain from murder, theft, or anything at all?

For those who actually care about reality, the text of the legislation that Rep. Wasserman Schultz voted for clearly states the following:

SEC. 1501. REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE… REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE.— An applicable individual shall for each month beginning after 2013 ensure that the individual, and any dependent of the individual who is an applicable individual, is covered under minimum essential coverage for such month.”

Note the bolding and all-caps are in the original legislation. When Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel were behind closed doors drafting this government take-over, they clearly wanted to make sure everyone knew there is a requirement to buy insurance. Now that they’ve passed the bill, and Democrat approval ratings continue to sink, all that’s left for them to spread is misinformation.