A comment on a comment on health care

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Seen in just about every newspaper article covering health care: Randy Barnett, a law professor at Georgetown University, said the lawsuits have a chance. "Never before in this country has the government mandated that a private citizen do business with a private company," he said.

Except for
- car insurance
- pre-sale car inspection
- home insurance
- pre-sale home inspection
- drug prescription sales

and more...

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[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic addresses the Constitutional questions. And he comes to positive conclusions — Virginia's Nullification law is toast, the individual mandate is fine, the fine is on shaky ground but should also be fine.

The analysis I'm looking forward to is Josh Marshall's of Talking Points Memo. He wrote yesterday: "the more serious challenges are based on extremely forward-leaning conservative arguments about the 'commerce clause'. It seems very out there. Comical almost. And with your average Court, I would think it a trivial concern. But this Court, particularly the four most conservative members, have shown themselves to be not only so ideological but so activist and even so partisan that I'm not sure you can really put it past them." And that's to be followed up by some reporting in the next few days.