If You Like Your ObamaCare, You Can Keep Your ObamaCare

Twenty years ago while discussing HillaryCare, a college professor friend informed me that Mrs. Clinton's comprehensive plan to overhaul America's health care system would work just fine because the federal government would require everyone to buy health insurance. Being a lover of Liberty, I was taken aback by this, especially since the professor delivered his opinion as though it were no more controversial than the states' requirement that motorists get safety inspections for their cars. That conversation two decades ago may be my oldest memory concerning the individual mandate, and it's stuck in my craw ever since. In 2009, a CNS News reporter asked then Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): "Madam Speaker, where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an individual health insurance mandate?" Madam Speaker responded: "Are you serious? Are you serious?" Americans now know due to the good graces of the Supreme Court that Congress cannot command the People to...(Read Full Article)

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