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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (3806)1/11/2008 11:50:40 PM
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"Maybe it should but social security didn't at least not in a practical sense (whether or not it is truly constitutional effectively it is because the courts have not struck it down)."

I don't know that it could have survived a Constitutional challenge in a different era. I understand that FDR threatened to stack the courts and that the SCOTUS flinched.

Was Social Security ever scrutinized under a Constitutional challenge?
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