Posted on 02/16/2012 12:13:36 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Could Obama healthcare law force you to buy a car? Photo 2:39pm EST
By James Vicini
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An attorney challenging President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law before the U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday that Congress could require Americans to buy a car or other product if people were compelled to obtain medical insurance.
But a former Obama administration attorney dismissed those concerns, calling them "absurd hypotheticals," and defended the insurance purchase requirement in the 2010 law as part of a comprehensive scheme to address a national problem of soaring healthcare costs.
At a briefing sponsored by SCOTUSblog, a web site that follows the Supreme Court, and Bloomberg Law, a unit of media giant Bloomberg, attorneys Paul Clement and Neal Katyal previewed the main arguments that will be made next month when the Supreme Court considers the healthcare challenge, which centers on the reach of Congress' power under the Constitution to regulate interstate commerce.
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Er....wasn't Bart Stupak quarantee about no abortion in the bill? (He even had a signed promise.)
Did Sarah Palin warn us about death panels which everyone in the MSM poop-pooped?
The only absurd hypotheticals are coming from this administration in its out-and-out determination to take over the industry.
Absurd hypotheticals...such as official government inspectors going through sack lunches of children at their schools for example? And, so very many more things that sound too far out to be true, and yet, there they are.
We’re already past absurd hypotheticals.
Look how they use the commerce clause for everything they want to do but have no authority to do. Right, absurd hypotheticals.
A scheme to control out of control Health care costs? My premium went up 2 thousand dollars because of Obamacare! If thats control I dont want it.
A scheme to control out of control Health care costs? My premium went up 2 thousand dollars because of Obamacare! If thats control I dont want it.
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