On the subject of the leaglity of the healthcare mandate and the Constitutional powers of government to enact healthcare reform in general:
Simply speaking, uninsured Americans are a social and financial liability on the state.
Constitutionally speaking, I contend that It’s contrary to the General Welfare to allow such disastrous practices in areas of life and death Commerce to go un-remedied.
In the context of the Commerce clause, the general Welfare in the preamble is the qualifying companion.
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
This is the spirit of America. This is the preamble to the law of the land.
Uninsured Americans are a legal liability to the health and stability and security of the country and communities.
There are wide ranging implications for a system, financially and socially, that spends far too much for rank 37th in the world in delivery while excluding so many. Infant mortality and life expectancy rates are statistically shameful. Private practice of rescission and pre-existing condition discrimination is unacceptable.
Healthcare delivery in America has been a violation of civil liberties and a burden on the government trying to fill the huge void left behind by a for-profit model.
These legally outweigh the personal choice to be a drunk driving liability on the system we all pay in to to maintain.
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