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The Supreme Court should vote Obamacare down 9-0. A 5-4 split would be silliness on such an easy decision....and this isn’t even tough. The government can just not have the power to force people into a contract, period...regardless of how much sense it might make at the time financially

There are plenty of ‘unconstitutional’ ways to address healthcare in this country but, it’s the Congress’ job to address the issue constitutionally. What’s most embarrassing is President Obama was a constitutional law teacher.

With all that said, the Congress does indeed have the constitutional power to tax us and then buy Healthcare for us as with Medicare. So, Universal Healthcare is still out there. I would much prefer to simply let the market place set the limits (and some reforms would help in this regard) as with other products but, so many folks simply get scared by this notion.

In any case, it’s never made sense to me why healthcare is provided through your employer. We should buy it like we buy car insurance. That way, if we want to cover our 30 year old son, birth control, and sex change operations, we could do just that at the local State Farm Office.....like any other product we buy. Really, insurance, like anything else, is no one dams business

In any case, Obamacare is unconstitutional and it’s back to the drawing board in my opinion.

In any case, it’s never made sense to me why healthcare is provided through your employer.

That's a relic of World War II. As skilled labor became scarcer because a.) manufacturing had ramped up, and b.) most young men were in uniform, companies tried to compete for workers by offering higher salaries. The feral government wage and price controls precluded higher salaries. In time, a "compromise" was arrived at: companies could sweeten fringe benefits, and so began to offer life and health insurance.

It's a classic example of a government-caused problem made more complex with a government-proposed solution that gradually leads to more—and more and more and more—problems in due time.

You can bet your last nickel the obvious solution, removing government altogether from both insurance and medical care, is the one that won't even be considered in Washington, D.C. Letting open markets go to work on the problem would soon result in lower medical care costs, improved medical care quality, lower insurance costs, more freedom and profitability for medical care providers, and greatly reduced demand for government intervention. Do you doubt me? Look at the hardware and software computer industry, which operates in a largely open market. Every year, prices stay the same or are pushed down, quality rises, speed rises, and consumers are happier. If not for government, the same would be true of medical care and insurance.

With all that said, the Congress does indeed have the constitutional power to tax us and then buy Healthcare for us as with Medicare.

Which enumerated power covers "the provision of healthcare for every inhabitant"?

That works as long as you cover people who already are insured and have a preexisting condition like I do. Some sort of grandfathering would be necessary for those individuals.

SF