Does the Constitution Allow the Gov't to Force Everyone to Have Health Insurance?

When you're in your twenties, ten foot tall and bullet proof, immortal, do you want to spend your money on health insurance? The government demands, with ObamaCare, that you to do just that. Of course you're probably not going to need it. You're young, you're healthy. Gov't mandated health insurance money will go to mostly the elderly and illegals. You would be subsidizing, and impoverishing yourself. Most of the uninsured are the young that don't want health insurance, and illegals.

Does the Constitution allow this? The Constitution gives the gov't specific and enumerated powers. Specific. Enumerated. Article I, Section 8, gives Congress the power to tax, borrow and spend money, raise and support armies, declare war, establish post offices and regulate commerce. Nothing there saying it can force individuals to buy insurance. It says the federal gov't can regulate foreign and interstate commerce. Nothing there saying it can force individuals to buy insurance.

Sen. Max Baucus(D., Mont.), who is trying to hammer out a compromise, still has a tax of up to $1,500 per year to impose if you don't submit to having insurance. It was $3,800. Once again the gov't is using taxation to change and enforce behavior. If I were a twenty-something, I'd be ticked if the gov't confiscated an additional $1500 a year for something I'll probably not be using. When I was that age, I was a liberal, but then liberalism meant 'stay out of my f****'n life'. (I swore a lot in those days...soldier, sailor, student.) I believe the same now, but now I'm a teabagging, terrorist, racist (new labels for Conservatives).

Do any of the enumerated powers give the right to the gov't to tax an individual who doesn't obey a law?

Supporters of ObamaCare say it does nothing to infringe on the rights of individuals. Right.