Where the "socialist" HC Mandate and the "Big Government" Health Exchanges originated.

Coverage of preventative services: Provisions of the Selected Current Health Care Reform Proposals - September 1993

http://www.fas.org/ota/reports/9316.pdf
Bottom of page 25 - top of Page 26

"The Bush plan also aims to create a health insurance market in which competition would keep costs down. Thus, under one of the bills intended to implement the Bush plan, small employers would benefit from managed competition through the formation of health insurance networks (HINs)]) (“ Comprhensive Health Reform Act of 1992”). HINs would arrange for the purchase of health insurance and could also negotiate payment rates and selective contracts with health care providers “for the purpose of obtaining favorable health insurance rates for its members. “ The Bush plan hopes to achieve universal coverage by mandating the purchase of at least a basic benefit plan, to be specified by Congress."

Was the mandate unconstitutional when the Republicans came up with it in 1993?