Unconstitutional Mandate Attacked from the Left

Ernest Istook / December 17, 2009

The Left is starting to recognize some of the perils of health care legislation that would create a whole new way for government to control its citizens.

Democracy for America (run by Howard Dean’s brother) is now warning its left-wing allies, “The bill doesn’t actually “cover” 30-million more Americans – instead it makes them criminals if they don’t buy insurance.”

How true. Projections are that 8-million to 14-million Americans would pay billions of dollars for failing to buy insurance under the House bill.

To Democracy for America, this is wrong, but only because a government-run “public option” insurance plan is out of the Senate version of the bill. However, restoring a public option doesn’t fix the wrongness of having government dictate how you must spend your money. (more…)