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Scott Garrett: Health Care Act provision threatens our freedom
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
BY SCOTT GARRETT
THE RECORD
OUR COUNTRY’S founding principles of limited government and individual liberty were on trial this week as the Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the constitutionality of President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
At the heart of this act is the individual mandate, which holds that the federal government can require citizens to purchase health insurance under threat of monetary penalty.
Such a law is unprecedented, unnecessary, unlimited and, above all else, unconstitutional. Never before has the federal government required people to buy a good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. And yet, using the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution as its rationale, that’s exactly what the Obama administration intends to do.
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