From Stark
Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman may be making a political miscalculation in blasting the individual health care mandate in President Barack Obama’s health care reform measures, Fox News analyst Juan Williams says.
Williams notes that in previous political incarnations, all three men were in favor of individual mandates–an idea that originated from the conservative Heritage Foundation.
He also notes that even as Gingrich, Romney and Huntsman scurry away from that mandate to court Republican primary voters, the idea is slowly gaining more support in the country at large — along with a number of other features in Obama’s reform package.
Not if it is found to be unconstitutional:
“As one of a number of attorneys general challenging the federal health care law, I am cautiously optimistic that the Supreme Court will strike down the law and its requirement that every citizen buy government-approved health insurance. Congress clearly has the power to regulate commerce, but using that power to force individuals into commerce goes too far. If the federal government crosses that line, it will have unlimited power to order citizens to buy virtually anything in the name of the “public good.”…
But I am not against health care reform…
No alternative to the current federal health care law should have a mandate that forces citizens to buy health insurance. The system should open the way for consumer-driven choices and less government meddling.
Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II is attorney general of Virginia.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/5/better-health-through-consumer-choice/
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“The system should open the way for consumer-driven choices …”
As I recall, there was substantial support for a public option. And it would appear that most, if not all, of these folks are consumers of health care.
Seems one person’s “government meddling” is another’s “trust busting.”
And the problem is the monopoly whether public or private, they both will give us higher prices and lower quality by eliminating competition.
The POWER!! shouldn’t be with the corporations nor government but with the freedom of the individual consumer to make their own decisions.
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