Virginia’s Rebel Yell
29th July
Virginias Rebel Yell
Newsweek, March, 2010 by Daniel Stone
As hard as the health-care fight has been for Democrats, the greater challenge may come if their bill is made into law. At issue is the individual mandate, a statute that would require all Americans to buy insurance or face a penalty tax. It has presidential backing, a green light from both houses of -Congressand its expected to survive the legislative compromise process given that the alternative is either higher premiums or higher taxes.
But legal scholars have questioned its constitutionality for months. And now the debate has shifted from theory to reality: Republicans in at least 30 states have launched bills that would reject the mandate
buying individual health insurance
