Ruth Erickson: “Many people don’t have the means to pay for health care insurance. They are more worried about finding employment to earn enough to pay for food and shelter. Not all senior citizens or families have the funds to purchase any kind of insurance! They are just scraping by and having to make difficult choices between eating or taking necessary medications. There are definitely many parts of the 2,700-page ‘Obamacare’ health insurance laws which can be saved, discussed, refined, rewritten and implemented, but to mandate that each person MUST buy health insurance is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!”
Julie Morris: “Yes. An individual mandate protects citizens from the unfair expense of the uninsured.”
Marty Richman: “No, it’s a violation of Article X at a minimum. Justifying a systematic non-emergency violation of the U.S. Constitution ‘for the public good’ is an extraordinarily dangerous precedent. Even the legal parts will be a financial disaster.”
Richard Place: “Absolutely not. The states have never given that power to the federal government.”
Jim West: “I’m not a constitutional judge, but the requirement for young people to buy health insurance they don’t need is synonymous with the requirement for older people to buy auto insurance they don’t need. We’re all in this together.”
Nants Foley: “I know nothing about constitutional law, though I have read the Constitution several times. My concern is about the enforceability of it. How will citizens be forced to buy a consumer product?”
