[A Navy Vet]

"With Tricare, Medicare and Medicaid, government has been involved in health care since way before Obamacare."

True, but individuals nor employers were forced to buy insurance only approved by Obamacare. "You want to keep your doctor, you can keep your doctor." Until so many retired. The mandate fine (Robert's tax) was the biggest obscenity of that take over of 1/6th of our economy.

Again, this was the most egregious Fedgov intervention in the free marketplace I can remember. How the USSC justified an individual or company is forced to buy a government sanctioned product just dumbfounds me.

It always come back to that ambiguous "General Welfare" clause in the Constitution Preamble that the dem/socs use to buy "gimmedat" votes. If only the Founding Fathers could have seen how that clause would be corrupted.

Question: Not being a Constitutional lawyer, has there ever been a ruling that the Preamble to the Constitution is law?

[Svartalfiar]

It always come back to that ambiguous "General Welfare" clause in the Constitution Preamble that the dem/socs use to buy "gimmedat" votes. If only the Founding Fathers could have seen how that clause would be corrupted.

How could they? The Preamble doesn't grant any powers, nor restrict any rights. It is literally an explanation of the purposes of the following document, and maybe the philosophy behind it.

What:
To promote the general Welfare

How:
- To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
- To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
- To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
- To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
- Etc, etc, etc.