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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (12178)	12/9/2009 1:40:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

It isn't a reality by definition. The situation under discussion is one where a penalty is imposed on someone who doesn't agree with the policy. That's not an issue of consent. Words in the constitution couldn't turn it in to one, the law does not define non-legal reality, and in any case nothing in the constitution is really relevant here. The constitution doesn't say "people consent to have policy X, or law Y". In any case many of the ideas for "health care reform" are constitutionally dubious in the first place.