If the government can order health care coverage, can it also order people to buy broccoli, a federal judge in Florida asked during oral arguments in a case challenging Obamacare. Politico reports that Judge Roger Vinson asked if Congress could “mandate everybody has to buy a certain amount of broccoli.”
According to Politico, Ian Gershengor, the deputy assistant attorney general tasked with defending the law, replied, “It’s not shoes. It’s not broccoli. Health insurance is a product that is a financial mechanism.”
The comments were made Thursday in the case brought by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of the requirement that Americans buy health coverage. The case is being heard in federal court in Pensacola, Fla. Politico termed the Florida case the “most high-profile and politically charged” of the dozens of challenges working their way through the courts.
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Does anyone think that maybe – just maybe – the courts will rule the right way and force Obamba to produce his documents?
Don't hold your breath.
a "financial mechanism" for government control.
Regulations take two forms. One is on the order of rules of the game in sports which sets limits to what action is allowed in playing the game. The other, like parents over their children, regulate their conduct.
It is permissible to set speed limits on the use of our highways for reasons of safety along with many other rules that enhance the smooth and safe flow of traffic.
It is not permissible to control the type and size of vehicle the driver chooses to use except in special cases of overwidth and overload traffic that can be permitted due to its special requirements.
Our health care should be monitored for its wholesomeness but not its content. Instead, our government wants to control the content but not the wholesomeness of the procedures. By injecting more wage earners into this mix the result is an increase in cost without an increase in value. This is not to your advantage and therefore not to my advantage, either.
When it come to diet, exercise and over the counter medications and supplements there is a lot of hype out there. Good and accurate information is difficult to come by for both good and not so good reasons. The government should remove as much darkness as possible but should not regulate the content. Our own understanding and wisdom should be able to make that choice. That separated tyranny from liberty.
This judge reflects that wisdom.
This is the first win of MANY more to come until we BURY obamacare !!
Exactly what I have been saying all along. If they can mandate people to buy insurance, then they can mandate people to buy ANYTHING!
How will everyone like it if the Federal Government dictates to you what food to buy and makes out your grocery shopping list, what car you have to buy and which house you must buy?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? THEY ARE ALREADY MAKING PLANS TO DO THAT