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Government health insurance mandate is constitutional, claims legal scholar

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
September 14, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 09/14/2010 - 11:27
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Citing federal powers that apply to the health insurance mandate – the power to regulate interstate commerce and the power to tax – Gostin argues that the health insurance mandate is constitutional. Similar broad interpretations in the modern court have enabled virtually anything the federal government wants to do, from requiring preferred testing for minorities to drug laws - it's a guaranteed federal, private right of action as long as the Supreme Court continues to affirm it and ignores the 10th Amendment.

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