[MayflowerMadam]

The way I understand it is: Obamacare health mandate = federal. Vehicle insurance = state. A state can mandate health insurance; the U.S. government cannot. Of course, Obama, et al., continue to do many things “the U.S. government cannot” do — and he is never thwarted. Hence, we have a dictatorship.

[MarkL]

The way I understand it is: Obamacare health mandate = federal. Vehicle insurance = state. A state can mandate health insurance; the U.S. government cannot.

Good point. The Constitution specifies what powers the federal government has over the states and the people. Requiring health insurance was NOT a part of those powers granted to the federal government by the Constitution. Obama decried that the constitution had "negative powers" meaning that it restricted the powers of the federal government.

Mark