Kasz216 on 24 June 2012
| richardhutnik said: One angle on the healthcare debate, as I see it, would be that individuals who push for allowing buying health coverage across state lines, then turn healthcare into interstate commerce. The moment it becomes interstate commerce, then the government can get involved. The federal government then can require people either have their own health insurance or sign up for government offered health insurance, if the state doesn't do it. This could be done by having people who don't own insurance (opt-out) be signed up in Medicaid and have their taxes adjusted accordingly. An issue now is that health care doesn't fall under interstate commerce. |
No. Healthcare does fall under interstate commerce. That was never challenged at the hearing.
The government already regulates healthcare at a national level.
The issue is that inaction =/= action... and the government has no power to force commerce... that is a power reserved by the state. Hence why whenever the federal government wanted a law like that. Like say car insurance. Instead of passing said law they blackmailed states into it.
Like say "You have to pass a mandatory car isurance law, or you won't get any highway tax funds".
