Necessary, Proper and the Individual Mandate

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A digestible primer for the US Supreme Court hearings on the federal healthcare bill happening this week.

by my friend Jack Painter, appearing in Roll Call March 22, 2012

“It’s hard to see how the individual mandate is a regulation of interstate commerce. How can the failure to purchase health insurance be considered commerce, let alone interstate commerce? If it is, what can’t Congress force us to purchase?

For that reason, the outcome of the case should…read whole article here.

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