“Viewpoint” host Eliot Spitzer uses Herman Cain’s latest anti-government ad as a launching point to discuss the health care mandate. He cites the example of Mary Brown — who filed a lawsuit challenging the mandate — for the $4,500 hospital bill that taxpayers footed when she went bankrupt. The mandate, Spitzer argues, “prevents freeloaders like Mary Brown from being there and just preying off the rest of us. That’s why sagacious thinkers like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the individual mandate before they ran for president.” His advice to the pair: “Stop pandering. Admit what you understood way back: The individual mandate makes sense.”
