{"id":3838,"date":"2010-04-23T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2010-04-24T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T13:28:41","slug":"constitutionalit-of-federal-requirement-to-buy-private-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/23\/constitutionalit-of-federal-requirement-to-buy-private-insurance\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutionality of Federal Requirement to Buy Private Insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Facebook friend, Tangelia Sinclair-Moore<\/strong><\/a>, posted, on her Facebook page, this rephrasing of an idea from a Baltimore Sun<\/strong><\/a><\/em> letter to the editor :<\/p>\n

WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? The Medicare Part D enacted by the Bush administration REQUIRES all individuals who enroll for Medicare benefits to buy prescription insurance from private, for-profit insurance companies. Individuals who do not purchase a Part D insurance plan and who do not have other prescription insurance MUST pay a one-time PENALTY as well as increased monthly premiums once they do enroll in Part D.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I read the full letter after I wrote my comments below.\u00a0 The author of that letter does an even better job of making the point than I did.<\/p>\n

I am surprised that this fact had not occurred to me when I was reading about how all these Governors and State Attorney’s General are going to take the Health Care Reform bill to the Supreme Court because they believe it is unconstitutional for the federal government to require citizens to buy private health insurance.<\/p>\n

I wonder if they have thought of the ramifications for George Bush’s legacy if they win their argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Facebook friend, Tangelia Sinclair-Moore, posted, on her Facebook page, this rephrasing of an idea from a Baltimore Sun letter to the editor : WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? The Medicare Part D enacted by the Bush administration REQUIRES all individuals who enroll for Medicare benefits to buy prescription insurance from private, for-profit insurance companies. Individuals who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3838","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}