Tyranny of Obamacare
I no longer have the "full-price" iHub service so I can't find my original post in which I declared that I thought Obamacare was unconstitutional. By original I don't mean that I was the first one who had that notion; it was just my 1st post on the subject.
It seems to me that the government requiring purchase of something is just flat-out wrong. Some argue that state governments have been doing this for years. In Missouri, for instance, every licensed driver is required to either have auto liability insurance or claim financial responsibility.
I lasted about as long in 1st year law school as it took me to write this much of this posting, and I'm a very fast typist, so I'm no expert. But in a Constitutional sense, when the document mentions that the right to anything is reserved for the people, they are speaking of any government below the federal level. So the states (a.k.a., the people) have the described right according to the US Constitution.
I didn't come close in the curriculum to studying state constitutions, but, given the passage of time I have to assume that the auto liability laws are constitutional for each state that has employed them.
Again, strictly from a layman's perspective, I think there has to be a disconnect between the US government requiring the purchase in an area in which it has no regulatory authority. Only the states regulate the insurance industry.
I'll now step off my soap box and I'll get enough rest to scoop the 1-foot plus of snow off my driveway tomorrow morning.
Bill
AI
