The individual mandate: It's constitutional

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Author(s) Los Angeles Times editorial board
Source Los Angeles Times
Date December 15, 2010
URL http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-health-20101215,0,7566577.story
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Quotes-start.png "There's no question that healthcare is a form of interstate commerce subject to regulation by Congress. Nor is there any question that the adults subject to the individual mandate participate in that market, whether it be buying aspirin at a drugstore, visiting a doctor for a checkup or rushing to an emergency room for treatment. (The law exempts Christian Scientists and others who abstain from medical care for religious reasons.) The individual mandate affects how people pay for the care they consume, but it doesn't force them into the healthcare market — they're already there." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position Act should not have been passed on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.