They can only do that for people who decide to use government services and products (the roads).
The difference is that with the healthcare mandate, there are no "only if" provisions. Everyone must buy, regardless of need or want.
Of course, show up at a garage without insurance or money to cover the car repair, and you’ll be shown the door. Show up at an ER in the same straits...they’ll treat you, and then spread the cost out to everybody esle.
Exactly!
And this is the argument we have to have ready when the Libs come back at us.
BTW, to the other posters, I recognize the State v Fed thing.
This was actually a rhetorical quesiton ;-)
“They can only do that for people who decide to use government services and products (the roads).”
And they will say we all use hospitals, ems, etc,,, who cannot refuse to treat us. They will back it up with huge stats of uninsured who use emergency rooms as primary car doctors. And just like that,,, hospitals will become the equivalent of public roads.
They also have the precedent that forces us to purchase their retirement system, social security.
If we are counting on the supreme court to save us from a giant expansion of government, we are screwed.