The ObamaCare Reckoning

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Author(s) The Wall Street Journal editorial board
Source The Wall Street Journal
Date March 28, 2012
URL http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303404704577309533293772806.html
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Quotes-start.png The government is mandating that everyone buy health insurance specifically, but by this reasoning any economic or personal decisions that touch on health care could be used as a pretext for federal police powers. People who lead healthy lives consume fewer medical services than others, so the government could mandate exercise, a healthy diet, and more. This is power without limit, which is not what the Constitution provides, or what its framers intended, or what the Supreme Court has ever tolerated. Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position Act is unconstitutional on the topic Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.