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Constitution’s ‘commerce power’ doesn’t permit Obamacare

Constitutional debate about the new health care law has been about the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance. But the constitutional issues also include whether the federal government should be regulating health care at all. The Founders would have said "no."

Rob Natelson, former law professor and author of The Original Constitution: What it Really Said and Meant, writes:

The President’s new health care law is now the focus of two national debates — one about policy, one about the Constitution. Most of the attention in the constitutional debate has been about the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance. But the constitutional issues also include whether the federal government should be regulating health care at all. The Founders would have said “no.”
Read the rest of article in the Colorado Springs Gazette: Constitution’s ‘commerce power’ doesn’t permit Obamacare.