Heritage explains:
This “personal responsibility” provision of the legislation, more accurately known as the “individual mandate” because it commands all individuals to enter into a contractual relationship with a private insurance company, takes congressional power and control to a striking new level. Its defenders have struggled to justify the mandate by analogizing it to existing federal laws and court decisions, but their efforts do not withstand serious scrutiny. An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party, with tax penalties to enforce it, is unprecedented– not just in scope but in kind–and unconstitutional as a matter of first principles and under any reasonable reading of judicial precedents.
If a health care bill is passed with an individual mandate, I will not participate – and I will welcome any legal sanctions as step one in a legal challenge to any such law. I’m certain that millions of other Americans would gladly join me in such an effort – in fact, we should start thinking of setting in motion a pre-commitment on this. Have people state, in public, that they will not adhere to any law which requires a citizen to engage in an economic activity – its bad enough that we’re required to buy car insurance, but at least there’s the “out” of not driving a car. Under ObamaCare, there would be no way out – save by popular revolt.
I’m not having any of this – I hold fast to my liberty and say, “thus far, but no further” to government attempts to control my life.
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