Freeman, Mar 2010 by Richman, Sheldon
The most outrageous aspect of health care “reform” is the insurance mandate: Every individual will have to buy government-defined comprehensive medical coverage (if it isn’t provided by his employer) – or be fined.
You must buy it. Who do these politicians think they are?
For those who wonder by what authority the government can make us buy insurance against our will, the Senate bill alluded to the Constitution’s Commerce Clause: “The individual responsibility requirement provided for in this section … is commercial and economic in nature, and substantially affects interstate commerce.”
How would an insurance requirement affect interstate commerce? The bill said that “The requirement is essential to creating effective health insurance markets in which improved health insurance products that are guaranteed issue and do not exclude coverage of preexisting conditions can be sold.”
Fallacies abound. To begin, medical insurance isn’t really interstate commerce
buying individual health insurance