The centerpiece of Obamacare was the individual mandate or ''[[diktat]]'', a provision that makes it mandatory for every citizen to purchase private health insurance, which was unprecedented in American history.
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The centerpiece of Obamacare was the individual mandate or ''[[diktat]]'', a provision that makes it mandatory for every citizen to purchase private health insurance, which was unprecedented in American history. There was no [[bi-partisan]] or national consensus. More than 150 million Americans were completely locked out of the process. Obama's progressive Democratic Socialists had single party control.