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Constitutional Questions About Health Care Reform

By ADF Alliance Alert

Carson Halloway writes at Public Discourse: "Debates over health care reform have focused almost exclusively on policy. Few have considered whether Congress even has the constitutional authority to enact its proposed reforms. Fundamental constitutional issues?such as the scope of the commerce power, the right of individuals to religious liberty, and the different natures of federal and state authority?must be recalled in order to have a more fruitful debate . . . But it is far from clear that Congress has a power to compel individuals to purchase health insurance . . . "

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 01, 2009 (boomark / email).