Random thought

I was reading about how Republicans are pushing Senator Baucus pretty hard on the individual mandate issue. They are concerned that it is a loss of liberty. In a way, I guess it is. However, those same Congressmen should then be against the issue of removing pre-existing clauses from insurance contracts, because that can't happen without an individual mandate. If we did one without the other, I think we all know that there would be widespread abuse in the form of people not picking up insurance until they get sick.