They didn’t read the health care bill, why the hell should they read the Constitution?
Their utter contempt for the American people disgusts me.
Plus, they don’t seem to be spending too much time paying attention to previous Supreme Court decisions!
“Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government.”
Linder vs United States, 285 US 5, 1925
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=268&invol=5
I would count on the Supreme Court to be intellectually dishonest in its read of the constitution and precedent.
Justice McReynolds also found the 1934 GCA unconstitutional if it was applied to guns used for the common defense or by an organized militia, but in 2009, Scalia asserted that the Miller decision stood for the opposite of what it actually says.
The Linder case is about unregulated sale of morphine - I'm thinking that a later case has reversed, otherwise the entire "federal schedule" for opiates would be invalidated.
As for "forced insurance," see SS and Medicare, Ponzi schemes kept afloat by confiscatory federal taxes.