Individual Mandate Plan

BOSTON—One of the most interesting stories about health care reform in Massachusetts, where I’m on a learning tour this week, is a story that neve...

Forcing our citizenry into indentured servitude to the insurance industry isn't anything progressives should be defending. The case against mandates is clear.

The health care bill's individual mandate provision is wholly unconstitutional and sets a dangerous precedent for a fundamental change in the nature of government as we know it.

The founding fathers adopted the first "individual mandate" back in 1792. It required individuals to outfit themselves with guns and ammunition, even if they had to buy those items from private sellers.

This is the fork in the road for the Senate's Democratic leaders: they must choose between the tort lawyers and a health care bill that could re-unite a country that has turned against the present bill.

Some experts say that the federal government does not have the power to require people to buy an insurance policy. But the proposals in the current legislation actually fall well within the demands of our Constitution.

In capitalism, if your product is too expensive, people don't buy it. Under Baucusism, the government forces you to buy insurance and kicks in some money to help you afford it.

We vaunt American democracy as a stellar model for the world. The bizarre spectacle now on display over health care "reform" is hardly an advertisement from our prime export product.