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To: Enlightened1

when challenged, the lower courts will likely find it to be unconstitutional and SCOTUS will refuse to hear it again.


5 posted on 02/04/2018 11:31:42 AM PST by drypowder
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To: drypowder

The Federal mandate, despite the Supreme Court’s tortured reading turning it into a tax, blatantly violates the U.S. Constitution.

However a state mandate, despite being very bad policy, does not violate the U.S. Constitution. Our federal constitution is silent on health care, which makes it a state matter.

A state legislature, unless constrained by that state’s own constitution, can impose whatever degree of socialized medicine it wants, until voted out of office. This includes mandating people purchase health insurance.


14 posted on 02/04/2018 11:57:07 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.")
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