Does not a moment of thought of your Liberal whack jobs idiots mind ever enter, even for a moment, to just consider that your "man" acutally might be a Nazi? While you were cheering for his success with health care, didn't the idea that the "man" would be able to tell you to "buy" insurance ever give you a minute of pause? Really, it didn't? Then you are stupid, almost as stupid as Krugman. Terry, you want to be compelled to buy Scottsdale sparkle bonds to improve the efficiency of the erotic industry because it is important to the economy of Scottsdale? How do you not get this?
By BETSY MCCAUGHEY
Last November, a reporter asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if it was constitutional for Congress to require Americans to buy health insurance. Ms. Pelosi responded, "Are you serious?"
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson got serious. He denied Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state of Virginia challenging the new health law. His ruling stated that it is far from certain Congress has the authority to compel Americans to buy insurance and penalize those who don't.
Judge Hudson's ruling paved the way for a trial to begin on October 18, with possible appeals all the way to the Supreme Court, a lengthy process. Some states will likely delay creating insurance exchanges and slow down other costly preparations for ObamaCare until its constitutionality is determined by this case.
If mandatory insurance is declared unconstitutional, the entire health law could collapse like a house of cards. Most complex legislation states that if one part of the law is struck down, other parts remain enforceable. But authors of ObamaCare chose to omit that clause, suggesting that the health overhaul won't work without mandatory insurance.
The law's defenders say the requirement that everyone purchase health insurance will solve a national problem by reducing the number of uninsured and spreading the cost of care over a larger insurance pool.
Critics say that the requirement tramples the Constitution. Twenty-one states and several individuals are already suing to overturn it. Virginia went one step further, enacting a law that makes it illegal to require any resident to purchase health insurance. The Virginia measure won solid support from both Republican and Democratic state legislators. Despite what Mrs. Pelosi tried to suggest, questioning the constitutionality of ObamaCare is not partisan posturing. A fundamental principle is at stake.
On July 1, before a packed courtroom, attorneys for the state of Virginia argued that if the federal government can require you to buy insurance, it could also force you to buy any product to solve any national problem: a new GM car to bolster Detroit, or stocks to prop up Wall Street.
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Okay, I get it. You can't win at the ballot box so you shop for an activist judge. Bravo.
Maybe I am confused but I am told I have to buy car insurance, I am told I have to pay income tax, what is the problem with being told I have to buy health insurance!!
While some say the federal government does not have the power to regulate health care, in reality, it has done so for decades through Medicare, Medicaid, and HIPAA. The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives the federal government the power to regulate business. Health care, comprising over one-sixth of the U.S. economy, certainly seems to deal a lot with business.
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