http://www.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2009/12/21/health-care-nullification-things-have-just-gotten-underway/

A Less Than Honest Policy
By BOB HERBERT

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/opinion/29herbert.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

The country can’t afford this bill as it is currently set up. Change it NOW !

No, the constitution does not provide for any one single person to be forced to purchase health insurance. The meaning of “welfare” in the constitution does not apply to healthcare as some have attempted to define it. In order for such a belief to solidify you’d have to assume that healthcare is a right, which it is not. Those rights are already define within the consitution- life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness- and the inalienable rights, those that can be enjoyed without destruction or abuse of anothers rights.

Here’s a good argument of healthcare as to it’s not being a right,

“Medical care is not a right. Medical care is a service provided by doctors and others to individuals who want to purchase it. A patient presents to the doctor with a request for care. The fact that the patient has a serious condition – even a life threatening one – does not entitle him, as his right, to the services of the doctor. To claim that he does means that doctors and others who provide these services have no rights, or that society can deliberately ignore these rights for the “greater good”. [...] If the exercise of a patient’s so-called “right” to healthcare imposes obligations on taxpayers to pay for it and healthcare practitioners to provide it, then it is not a right, but an attempt to enslave one part of the population for the benefit of another part. In reality, these types of so-called “rights” are offered to groups of Americans by politicians in exchange for votes. Claims on humanitarian concerns are merely a fig leaf over a naked power grab by the state.” -Maria Martins

Which also covers your information on the supreme court’s future ruling elsewhere stated in this piece.

Current healthcare costs are draining the economy, 70% of GDP is ‘consumption’,

Health Care Costs Curb Holiday Spending
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/144801/health_care_costs_curb_holiday_spending

so slamming the poor one more time doesn’t seem to be a consideration of the wealthy and corporations as long as they finagle another tax break out of the process.

The difference is that auto insurance is mandated by the individual states, and they have that ability under their broad police power. The federal government does not have any police power, except as interpreted through the commerce clause.

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