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Charles Fried: “I am quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional.”

On the recordFebruary 1, 2011
I am quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional.
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Charles Fried

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Fried asserts the constitutionality of the health care mandate despite concerns about other aspects.

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