The GOOP contention that a mandate for every citizen to have health insurance is unconstitutional is, like everything else the GOOP says, complete bullshit. What is amazing is that anyone, even the teabagger morons, can't see through this. There are, after all, other, very similar mandates. Everyone is required to pay taxes. Everyone is mandated to participate in Social Security. Nearly every state mandates that car owners have car insurance. Some states, notably Massachusetts, mandate that every citizen have health insurance. (Scott Brown, the until-recently messiah of the whacky right, voted for mandatory health insurance in Massachusetts). And, as I may have pointed out here before, anyone who lives in a flood plain is mandated by the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to have flood insurance. Only one company underwrites flood insurance in the USA. It's called the Federal Flood Insurance Program… yep. Uncle Sam. Maybe someone should remind Sen. Chuck Gassey (GOOP- IA) of that next time he starts raving about unconstitutionality of the federal mandate. (Which, by the way, was first proposed in the United States Senate in 1993 by… THE GOOP, in particular by Chuck Gassey.)
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