Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.
~It’s an essential way to improve the “general welfare” of the people.
~Insurance is a matter of “interstate commerce.”
~This plan is part of the “necessary and proper” facilitation of a health care marketplace.
~The current system creates inequalities which violate the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws.”
~Ensuring health care is merely an extension of protecting the “right to life.”
~Congress has the power to tax.
~Congress has the power to encourage behavior through tax policy, as the various deductions and credits of the 1040 show.
~Health care is an essential matter of national security, as shown by the legality of mandatory vaccinations.
~The Constitution imposes other positive duties on people, such as jury duty.
~Our duly elected officials believe that it will be a good thing.
~It’s an essential way to improve the “general welfare” of the people.
~Insurance is a matter of “interstate commerce.”
~This plan is part of the “necessary and proper” facilitation of a health care marketplace.
~The current system creates inequalities which violate the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection of the laws.”
~Ensuring health care is merely an extension of protecting the “right to life.”
~Congress has the power to tax.
~Congress has the power to encourage behavior through tax policy, as the various deductions and credits of the 1040 show.
~Health care is an essential matter of national security, as shown by the legality of mandatory vaccinations.
~The Constitution imposes other positive duties on people, such as jury duty.
~Our duly elected officials believe that it will be a good thing.
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Links
Con Health-care reform and the Constitution (WSJ)
Con Sen. Hatch questions Obamacare’s Constitutionality (CNS News)
Con All the President’s mandates (pdf) (Cato)
Con Obamacare vs. the Constitution (World Net Daily)
Con Obama admin. doesn’t care if Constitutional (First Things)
Con Sen. Hatch questions Obamacare’s Constitutionality (CNS News)
Con All the President’s mandates (pdf) (Cato)
Con Obamacare vs. the Constitution (World Net Daily)
Con Obama admin. doesn’t care if Constitutional (First Things)
Con Constitution doesn't allow insurance mandate (Orrin Hatch)
Con Illegal health care reform (Wash Post)
Pro Health care reform is Constitutional (Politico)Pro Constitutionality of Obamacare part 1, part 2 (Findlaw)
Pro Health care reform is Constitutional (DOJ 1993)
Pro Health care reform is Constitutional (DOJ 1993)
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