His latest flip-flop relates to health insurance. He is now saying he is open to requiring most Americans to be forced to get health insurance, which was Hillary Clinton's position in the Democratic primary last year but which Obama then opposed.
Mandating insurance is like a tax on the insured, typically on lower income people who might elect not to obtain insurance due to the cost - so you can see why Obama would oppose it during the campaign. But it shows the depths of his dishonesty, since socialist medicine plans usually involve compulsory insurance requirements.
Clinton was being honest about this during the campaign last year; Obama wasn't.
* An ongoing series that compares Barack Obama's campaign rhetoric with the reality of his administration's actions and policies.
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