Should the Supreme Court strike down the healthcare law?

[Matthitjah]

What difference does it make whether it is the federal, state or local government issuing a mandate? A mandate is a mandate.

Seriously?

If you do not own a car and do not desire to drive you are exempt from State Mandates of having a required license and car insurance. In Obamacare everyone must buy Health Insurance or face jail time or a steep fine.

Do you really want to live in a society wherein the Government will dictate what you must purchase? If you do you will next be forced to purchase and drive a dangerous battery operated inefficient vehicle which will likely burn down your home in the middle of the night.

Wake Up sir!

Dave, it is against Federal Law for an emergency room to turn anyone away from treatment...... so in this analogy, everyone drives or has access to.driving. If you want to take this analogy, you would have to say that an ER would/could refuse you service if you couldn't pay for it.

If you cancel your auto policy and sell your vehicles deciding to never drive again can you be fined or imprisoned?

You are arguing apples and oranges Sam.

Someone stated that auto insurance mandates are like Obamacare and they aren't even remotely close. In Auto Insurance mandates you can opt out. You cannot opt out of Obamacare without a severe penalty and possible jail time.

If you want to live under Socialism move to Venezuela but please don't ask me to give up my Liberty for your security because in doing so neither of us will benefit. We will lose our Liberty and security. Your security is in your Liberty.

[other one]

Funny I seem to be required by the government to put taxes towards social security & medicare for seniors, services I very likely will never get good returns on when I myself reach retirement age.

Where is the outrage about that?

I'm over 65 and on medicare, and I paid into it since i was 18 years old....... had I invested that money into an annuity I'b be getting almost double the money back, and the money I put into it would still be there or recoverable by the insruance company the annuity is with.

From my viewpoint one of us is going to get messed over, because they have borrowed the principle that I put in and spent it on wars, among other things.

[Mark2005]

Wake me the first time anyone goes to jail for failing to purchase health insurance. YAWN!

[Matthitjah]

Wake me the first time anyone goes to jail for failing to purchase health insurance. YAWN!

You'd better go read Obamacare and the Mandatory Insurance purchasing part. As I've said, 'it's far past time to Wake Up sir!"

[AlexanderJ]

Wake me the first time anyone goes to jail for failing to purchase health insurance. YAWN!

Your head is in the clouds... People go to jail for not having other mandated insurance, and health care insurance will be no different.

[jasoncran]

its collected by the irs. fail to pay your taxes and well jail will be your new home

[The_Patriot21]

I sure hope they do, it is very unconstitional, and on top of that, it wont work. Its spending money the government doesnt have, to force us to spend money that we dont have, just so we can afford "health care" that is outrageously expensive. So, unconstitional law that wont work? it needs struck down. IF they were serious about making health care affordable, then theyd find a way to do it-this is all about control, not the good of the people. My dad had a good plan-he thinks we should A: get rid of the ambulance chasers, i.e. find another method of keeping doctors accountable without lawsuits coming into play, that way they wouldnt need the expensive malpractice insurance (lawsuits dont do any good anyway-the insurance just pays the lawsuit, doctor keeps on making the same mistakes) B: the government should have taken all that bailout money they gave the car industry and used it to pay off all the bad debt in the hospitals (another reason costs are so high) and then C: force them to drop their prices to what they were in 1950. Once you take out the malpractice insurance and the bad debt, hospital charges then become affordable to us, yet the doctors can still afford their BMWs and golf weekends. Think about it-thats a practical method, it drops costs all the way around-but no, theyd rather throw money away down the tube for a method that will just further bankrupt our country and violate our rights.

[jasoncran]

if one doesnt have car insureance in my state you loose your tag. get pulled for an expired tag and its been a long time you might see some jail for that.

[other one]

The only reason it's unconstitutional is because we do not let insurance companies sell insurance across state lines..... I do not know if that is changed in the bill or not. Thing's much too big to research it all. Would take full time for at least a couple of months to do that.

But if you can sell insurance across state lines then it's commerce and the government would have the constitutional right to regulate it.

[gdemoss]

The lawyers ought to learn from the lawgiver, the law should only be given because of transgressions and be created in such a way that it seeks to chasten the lawbreaker and cause them to be a partaker in Gods holiness.

Gary