If the federal government can force citizens to, by law, carry health insurance, can it not also force them to carry OTHER forms of insurance – specifically, homeowner’s and renter’s insurance
Ever since Congressional Democrats rammed the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) down the collective throats of the American people and it was signed into law by President Obama in early-2010, the most contentious aspect of it has been the individual mandate provision. This is the portion of the law that requires every American to carry some form of health insurance. It is the individual mandate around which most of the constitutional challenges to the law are centered. The argument concerns the limits of the government’s authority to force citizens to purchase any kind of product – specifically, health insurance.
