Mr Khan said:
My qualifier is that health care is an inevitability in the aggregate. You're citing stuff that doesn't apply for the vast majority of people to state why it isn't an inevitability, and if judges are ruling like that, then they're the ones clutching at straws, because that then violates the spirit of things by going after technicalities. Yes i want it ruled constitutional, but I also believe that there's really no sound argument against it. |
Inevitability means... not avoiadable.
The fact that it is avoidable for some people,(or really anyone who chooses to not have healthcare or go elsewhere) means it's not an inevitability, and therefore not inevitable.
Your arguement is that at some point, everbody will use healthcare. When in fact, some people will never use healthcare.
Though, lets have a thought expierment for a moment and say that probability = inevitability.
Regardless... this is your sole claim that your clinging too, since the rest have been disproven and you've neglected to argue the points past that.
Which means, that if ruled constituional, it means ANY "inevitable" purchase can be regulated by congress to force purchases.
Which again, brings us back to the Supreme Court question.
Food is more of an inevitable purchase then healthcare. Therefore the government can enforce what we eat.
Or hell, you can enforce what we eat under the healthcare mandate afterall. Peoples health problems would be less problematic if they ate healthy afterall. So why not force eveyrone to eat very strict specific diets or pay fines.
It will lower their "inevitable" costs down the line.
This is not a slippery slope arguement, because there is no slope. It's the exact same situation since we've already ruled out "no other way to regulate it" since there is.
You can argue the government wouldn't do that, but it doesn't change the fact that they would now have the power to... do you see that as consitutional?
This is now simply a situation where we take the exact same kind of thing but replace it with something you aren't emotionally invested in since we've already factually proven the other things aren't relevent.