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What will be the outcome of Supreme Court and Obamacare or ACA?
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 956678" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>None of those examples are even close to the constitutional issues brought up due to Obamacare. </p><p></p><p>Auto insurance has been covered, it is required by the states, not the federal government, and can be avoided by simply not driving. It is a requirement only if you make the <strong>choice</strong> to own a car and drive on public roads.</p><p></p><p>Social Security and Medicare are programs that make use of the government's power to tax, and those taxes go to the government and are returned in the form of a direct benefit. The difference with Obamacare is you are not paying for any direct benefit from the government, but are punished if you do not go out into the private marketplace and purchase a product (health insurance) with another private entity. As the justices rightly asked where does this power end? Can the government force us to buy GM cars, or broccoli, or burial plots? If the government can tell us what we have to buy for our own good are we still a free people?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 956678, member: 249"] None of those examples are even close to the constitutional issues brought up due to Obamacare. Auto insurance has been covered, it is required by the states, not the federal government, and can be avoided by simply not driving. It is a requirement only if you make the [b]choice[/b] to own a car and drive on public roads. Social Security and Medicare are programs that make use of the government's power to tax, and those taxes go to the government and are returned in the form of a direct benefit. The difference with Obamacare is you are not paying for any direct benefit from the government, but are punished if you do not go out into the private marketplace and purchase a product (health insurance) with another private entity. As the justices rightly asked where does this power end? Can the government force us to buy GM cars, or broccoli, or burial plots? If the government can tell us what we have to buy for our own good are we still a free people? [/QUOTE]
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