Was requiring people to purchase health care insurance a socialist idea when the Republicans first invented it?

..back in 1993, as an alternative to Bill Clinton's health care proposals? Or did it become "socialist" only after Obama endorsed it? http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/…
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well, anything obama touches is abhorrent to conservatives, so maybe he should try to ban abortion, just so they all become pro-choice.
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