Tipsheet

Is National Health Insurance Constitutional?

Jillian Bandes
Jillian Bandes  |  August 20, 2009 7:00 PM
Julia Shaw at Heritage says it's not, but thinks this is the more important point:
...Most progressive advocates of national health insurance are unconcerned whether the Constitution authorizes such a law when a pseudo-constitutional reasoning to reach the desired result will suffice.  But constitutionalists should not allow such attempts to dismiss the Constitution go unanswered.