Is the health care reform law unconstitional???
As someone who voted for Obama last fall, I believe the health care system in the U.S. should be reformed. With that disclosure of my political/voting preference, I am going on record as saying that I agree with critics of this law that the “mandate” portion requiring individuals to purchase health insurance is unconstitutional. I’ll spare you the details of the arguments and point you to a few sites that discuss this issue: Critics of this mandate aspect of this law include: The Cato Institute (an unabashedly “conservative” think tank): See the section titled “The Individual Mandate” on this page: http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11600 A copy of this article was also published in a Washington Post guest commentary page, with links to other sites that may be useful in examining this issue: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031901470.html A commentary in US News and World Report by Scott Galupo, a Washington-based free-lancer writer who has
