Posted by
Defend America on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:06:25 PM
Sen.
Reed: Forcing People to Buy Health Insurance is Constitutionally
Justified Because It’s Like Making People ‘Sign Up for the Draft’
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
By
Edwin Mora
(CNSNews.com)
– When asked where specifically the Constitution authorized Congress
to mandate that individuals buy health insurance, Sen. Jack Reed
(D.-R.I.) said that he “would have to check the specific sections” but
said that it was like making people “sign up for the draft.”
“Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority
to mandate that individuals purchase health insurance?” CNSNews.com
asked Reed.
“Let me see,” said Reed. “I would have to check the specific sections,
so I’ll have to get back to you on the specific section. But it is not
unusual that the Congress has required individuals to do things, like
sign up for the draft and do many other things too, which I don’t think
are explicitly contained [in the Constitution]. It gives Congress a
right to raise an army, but it doesn’t say you can take people and
draft them. But since that was something necessary for the functioning
of the government over the past several years, the practice on the
books, it’s been recognized, the authority to do that.”
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