That is what is discussed in a Washington Post article, amazingly. I guess all the Big Bosses, liberals all, must have had too many cocktails last night to allow this to be printed. Or, perhaps they are just realizing that “gee, this government run health system they are trying to institute will actually affect me. I can keep my health insurance if I like it, but, the minute I want to make a change, I will HAVE to choose one of the approved plans. Oh, and my taxes will get jacked.”
President Obama has called for a serious and reasoned debate about his plans to overhaul the health-care system. Any such debate must include the question of whether it is constitutional for the federal government to adopt and implement the president’s proposals. Consider one element known as the “individual mandate,” which would require every American to have health insurance, if not through an employer then by individual purchase. This requirement would particularly affect young adults, who often choose to save the expense and go without coverage. Without the young to subsidize the old, a comprehensive national health system will not work. But can Congress require every American to buy health insurance?
In short, no. The Constitution assigns only limited, enumerated powers to Congress and none, including the power to regulate interstate commerce or to impose taxes, would support a federal mandate requiring anyone who is otherwise without health insurance to buy it.
Thing is, Democrats couldn’t give a fucking rats ass what the Constitution says or means, nor what it allows them to do and restricts them from doing. They want single payer and the end of States Rights (among other things,) and they will be damned if anything like that pesky Constitution will stand in the way of implementing it.
If you think that any of these plans by Democrats to “reform” the health system won’t personally affect you and your family in negative ways, and give the federal government, including appointed but unellected people, massive control over your life, then, you must be a Democrat, because only a Democrat can be that clueless and stupid.
Unfortunately, I don’t have the time to photoshop a picture of a Democrat with arms spread wide, saying “Fuck you, I’m a Democrat.” So, just visualize it, OK?
Others who discuss this in a less hostile tone: The Moderate Voice, Balkinization, Hot Air, The Glittering Eye, Viking Pundit, Stop The ACLU, Right Wing News and Althouse
