Fantasies of Unintended Consequences
Following the signing by President Obama of the new health-insurance bill, and trailing off the spectacle of "freedom"-loving teabagging bigots pelting elected representatives with various slurs and epithets in the name of do-it-my-way-or-else "democracy", we have the new spectacle of states' attorneys general rushing to join a federal suit against the legislation. This, of course, is a time-honored tradition with Constitutional guarantees.
Apparently their contention will be that federal mandates for individual citizens are unconstitutional. Setting aside for a moment whether there's any merit to such an idea, imagine that the Supremes go along with the idea (gosh, could happen; who's crazier: a teabagger or Justice Scalia?) and rule that the requirement that individuals have health insurance in unconstitutional.
What in the world could congress do to rectify that [imagined] constitutional failure?
Implement universal, single-payer health care, of course.
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on Wednesday, 24 March 2010 at 21.52
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Yes, that would be the optimum response — and comeuppance. Works for me.