If government can mandate auto insurance, homeowners insurance, flood insurance....Then it only makes sense that government can mandate health insurance. I believe that the Sixth Circuit Court and Judge Jeffery Sutton got it right.
July 01, 2011
After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act, many right-wing bloggers criticized the decision or downplayed its significance. But one of the judges who voted to uphold the statute was Jeffrey Sutton, an appointee of President George W. Bush who was such a proponent of states' rights during his legal career that he once proclaimed that he became involved in states' rights issues because "I really believe in this federalism stuff."
By A 2-1 Vote, The Sixth Circuit Upholds The Constitutionality Of The Individual Mandate. In Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, the Sixth Circuit held by a vote of 2 to 1 that the provision of the Affordable Care Act mandating that individuals purchase health insurance does not violate the Constitution. The majority consisted of Sixth Circuit judges Boyce Martin and Jeffrey Sutton. District Judge James Graham, acting as a Sixth Circuit judge in this case, dissented. [Thomas More Law Center v. Obama, 6/29/11]
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2 comments:
LOL! God, you socialists are always good for a laugh.
Let's try some math ...
Roberts + Scalia + Thomas + Kennedy + Alito = 5 votes.
5 votes is better than 4.
Let's see what these right, wing wing nuts have to say when they reach Social Security and Medicare age.....wanna bet they will sing a different tune ??
Reforms will be necessary to sustain these very needed programs because they have proven to work, Just like the pension and benefit packages that have exceeded the ability to sustain them (especially the cops and the paid firemen)intelligent (not greedy) solutions exist to modify these programs. The biggest reform needed is getting the political hacks off the taxpayers backs. These public employee pension and benefit programs have exceeded any programs in the private sector.They are unreasonable and if contested could be found illegal because the decisions to provide them provided no financing in N.J. since Christine Todd Whitman raided the system and no successive governor has contributed the state's share either.
Want a good read that enlightens ? The "Soprano State" by Bob Engle and Sandy Mc Clure.
Public pensions should not be stacked as these political bosses and their useless cronies have been so great at providing themselves with. The jig is up,there's no money to pay for these ponzi schemes and in many cases the abusers belong in jail!!!
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