George Will: Road Block Awaits Health Care

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ALTHOUGH Democrats think their health care legislation faces smooth sailing to implementation, there is a rock dead ahead - a constitutional challenge to the legislation's core. Democrats who assume it is constitutional to make it mandatory for Americans to purchase health insurance should answer some questions:

Would it be constitutional for the government to legislate compulsory calisthenics for all Americans? If not, why not? If it would be, in what sense does the nation still have constitutional, meaning limited, government?

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George Will: Road Block Awaits Health Care

Supporters of the mandate say Congress can impose it under the enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce. Since the New Deal, courts have mad...

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