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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (624068)	8/12/2011 7:16:24 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1575981

But a universal health insurance program would be much more expansive to government power than the authority to force Americans to buy health insurance. Directly maybe, but if the government is allowed to enforce this mandate there is almost nothing it can't mandate, except perhaps things specifically and directly forbidden to it by the constitution (and sometimes that doesn't wind up holding, with courts allowing the government to violate explicit constitutional rights), and abortion. The federal government is supposed to only be able to do what the constitution says it can do. Moving it from a situation where for federal powers "everything not allowed is forbidden", to "everything not expressly forbidden is allowed" would be an expansion larger in scope (though not immediately in dollars spent) than a national health care program. Also Obamacare barely got through (so far, perhaps not if the courts strike it down). I don't think nationalized health care will, esp. with the budget situation the country faces.