In an ABC interview that aired on Wednesday, President Barack Obama acknowledged that his thinking on an individual mandate for insurance coverage has "evolved" since the days of the campaign, when he routinely attacked his primary opponent, then Sen. Hillary Clinton, for the idea.
Later in the day, however, the White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stressed that Obama wasn't straying too far from his initial objections to required coverage, stressing that any mandate would have to include a "pretty stringent hardship...
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