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To: research1234 who wrote (152195)	12/13/2010 3:41:00 PM
From: Paul Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541777

And the government (fed, state and local) is not required to provide free medical services to the uninsured,... Correct. The government is not required to do that. Doing it does not grant additional constitutional authority.

To: research1234 who wrote (152195)	12/13/2010 3:51:09 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 541777

This strikes me as precisely the right point. There are two ways to provide health insurance, looking across the globe: some form of private insurance in which everyone buys but the government regulates or single payer government insurance. Lots of forms of each. But those two basic forms. You would have thought a reasonably responsible Rep party would see that the individual mandate within the envelope of private insurance was the system they should favor. But not this incarnation of the Reps.