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To: Shethink13
The individual health care mandate was not declared Constitutional.
Wasn't it declared Constitutional under the government's taxing power?
20 posted on 07/09/2012 10:21:38 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: philman_36
Wasn't it declared Constitutional under the government's taxing power?

You are confusing the "individual mandate" with the "Affordable Health Care Act". Perhaps that explains why this keeps getting reported incorrectly. The Act itself was declared Constitutional as a tax. That was the whole controversy with Roberts - that he literally re-wrote the bill to make it work by calling the "mandate" a tax.

While Ginsberg voted with the majority, she wanted the mandate to be declared Constitutional which Roberts disagreed with, and that is why she wrote a separate opinion.

So while the entire Act was declared Constitutional, the individual mandate was not. That is the inaccuracy - might seem subtle but it really isn't.

21 posted on 07/09/2012 10:35:20 PM PDT by Shethink13
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