McCain Says Health Care Bill Would Face Constitutional Challenge

CNS News ^ | 2009-11-06 | Edwin Mora

[pepsionice]

If you don’t want to drive...you don’t have to. I know lots of Mennonites in Tennessee who don’t drive but ride a buggy....you don’t see mandatory buggy insurance required....now do you?

This is just one legal challenge of hundreds. Even if passed....2013 can come and the Supreme Court will have various cases to stall it for two or three years until this is settled.

[556x45]

John who?

[crescen7]

"Has Medicare ever been challenged?"

Come on folks, wake up. Yes. Medicare was challenged. It went to the Supreme Court. The Administration defended it as being constitutional by insisting it was A TAX not a PENSION PLAN - exactly the opposite of the position they took selling it to the public.

This is the same "Defense" they will use in this challenge. The only hope is that a challenge can keep it from going into effect until it can be repealed after 2010.

[paladinan]

That’s a point: is anyone worthwhile set to run against this guy in his primary? It’d really be nice to see him put out to pasture, once and for all...

[spectre]

"Everyone must buy into the proposed HC plan."

Even if they can't afford it?

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[longtermmemmory]

I do not trust McCain.

This is the load of garbage sent with CFR. “trust us the court will overrule it”. Let us pass this for political face.

Utter garbage.

I do not trust McCain.

I do not trust the ALLEGED leadership of the Republican Party.

The senate is too country club to have our RE-earned out trust.

The fact McCain is pushing this only proves, DO NOT TRUST McCAIN.

[jcsjcm]

They only mandate it if you wish to drive your car on the road. There is no penalty not to have insurance if you do not go on the road. Also, you are not required to cover yourself or your car. You must have coverage to cover others (in your car) or other peoples property and person if you cause an accident.

Not mandatory! I really hate that this car insurance stuff keeps coming up. And states are allowed to do this, government is not. Rhode Island drivers are not required to have insurance.

[CSM]

“What about the state laws requiring auto insurance?”

1. State government vs. fed government.
2. No car, no requirement.
3. Requirement is for liability ins not for car care.

[what's up]

I'm so confused.

Ozero says he backs the House bill...but he also said he's against raising taxes which the House bill does by mandating insurance.

But doesn't this make Zero a liar? How could this be?

[April Lexington]

John McCain And Ralph Feingold denied the NRA and other legitimate interest groups the right to exercise their First Amendment rights of free political speech within 90 days of a Federal election... We should trust John McCain???????

[b4its2late]

It better!

[savage woman]

“That is an excellent question and I’M SURE that if they pass health care legislation, I THINK there would be a challenge.”

What I want to know is why wasn’t it challenged before
they even try to pass the legislation? How can you PASS something that is not constitutional? I love how he uses
I’M SURE in the passing part and then I THINK in the
challenge part.

[MARTIAL MONK]

Russ Feingold in a Senator from Wisconsin. Ralph Feingold paints houses in Orlando.

[vpintheak]

Didn’t he hear Polousy’s “Are you serious? Are you serious”

[gorilla_warrior]

McCain knows nothing about the Constitution, if he did, he never would have co-sponsored the Incumbent Protection Campaign Finance for Elitist Incumbents Act.

[Notary Sojac]

The important thing to understand about CFR is that it's not a Democrat vs Republican, or even a conservative vs liberal, issue.

It's a lifelong incumbents vs the rest of America issue.

Which is why so many Republicans supported it.

[Getsmart64]

Yep..Ol’ Johnny boy will use this as his excuse for voting for the health care bill...

[neverdem]

McCain cares about the Constitution so much that he helped Feingold attack it!

Knock me over with a feather.