Health-care mandate no tax rise, Obama says
Posted: September 21, 2009 at 4:44 a.m.
President Barack Obama is seen on a monitor Sunday as Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele (not pictured) appears on CBS' Face the Nation in Washington.
Requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would not amount to a backhanded tax increase, President Barack Obama said Sunday. "I absolutely reject that notion," he stated.
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