Rick Lowe
If you have an interest in the so called ObamaCare debate in the United States you might be aware that a Virginia Court recently overturned the "individual mandate" or right to force people to buy health insurance stating that it was unconstitutional.
Michael F. Cannon of The Cato Institute sets it out quite clearly at this post… for Cato @ Liberty.
Two paragraphs really stand out for me:
- ObamaCare has always hung by an absurdity. ObamaCare supporters claim that the Constitution’s words “Congress shall have the Power…To regulate Commerce…among the several States” somehow give Congress the power to compel Americans to engage in commerce. This ruling exposes that absurdity, and exposes as desperate political spin the Obama administration’s claims that these lawsuits are frivolous.
- These lawsuits and the continuing legislative debate over ObamaCare are about more than health care. They are about whether the United States has a government of specifically enumerated powers, or whether the Constitution grants the federal government the power to do whatever the politicians please, subject only to a few specifically enumerated restraints. This ruling has pulled America back from that precipice.
I'm pleased that this ruling took place and wonder if this might be an option for The Bahamas as our Government continues down this road to "free health care" and even more debt for future generations of Bahamians to shoulder?
