Originally Posted by Sirisian
Basically you have him laying out the truth.
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I am not going to comment on the rest of the post but I think you need to be a bit more honest with your assessment of Pres. Obama laying out "the truth" for his health care bill.
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Originally Posted by Obama
Health care, which is in the news right now -- there's a reason why there's a little bit of confusion in the Republican primary about health care and the individual mandate since it originated as a conservative idea to preserve the private marketplace in health care while still assuring that everybody got covered, in contrast to a single-payer plan. Now, suddenly, this is some socialist overreach.
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The reason its in the news is because the Supreme Court has review the bill, and from all indications the Solicitor General did a piss poor job defending it. Furthermore there is a very significant chance the bill will be overturned, because the SG could not provide a clear definition as to how far Congress can go with the commerce clause. Without that definition, this bill would fundamentally change the relationship of the government to the citizen. In other words, if these bill is viable then is 2 servings a day of broccoli viable? What else can we force the public to purchase by calling it "commerce"?
Sure as hell sounds like an overreach to me. Whether you want to call it socialist or not is up to you.