Unlawful Bill of Attainder Provision of Obamacare Before U.S. Supreme Court

Five conservative court members seem to believe that the government has the constitutional right to order citizens to buy product (insurance) from private business (corporations). Four left-leaning judges are ready to end the freedom of Americans not to be ordered by the government to surrender their earnings to other citizens (excluding of course legal judgments against them).

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A reasonable administration would have advocated for free government health care for the poor in expanded V.A. facilities with some medicare for those in rural areas unable to access urban medical centers and left the freedom of Americans alone. The effort to compel young Americans to buy something they don't need in order to fatten the pockets of private health insurance corporations so they in theory might lower the cost of insurance to the middle class was a hair-brained theory at best; the corporations are in the business of making a profit and would always find some way to gouge those with money to yield to powerful networks. The presumption is that with enough pressure any citizen will give up his pot of gold, and if he hasn't got one but is really poor then no matter-no stress to the powerful insiders anyway.

One day a rational and consitutionally defensible expansion of the V.A. to provide free medical service to all veterans and all of America's genuinely poor may arise to cut out emergency room visits by illegal aliens and poor people with sundry issues.

The effort to invade every private citizens privacy and to force youth to subsidize middle class health coverage could have better spent by compelling Americans to balance their federal budget and have an ecologically renewable basis for economic activity. The arguments by people in a lifeboat about their right to exploit their privately owned parts of the lifeboat below the waterline for heating fuel or whatever lose merit when it will cause the loss of the vessel. Neither idiocy of corrupting over-extending of federalism beyond constitutional parameters nor federal abandonment of guidance through challenging ecospheric and demographic times are good policies.