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On the recordMarch 3, 2010
It forces individuals to purchase government-approved health insurance. Let's talk about that for a minute. Yeah, the old Democrat plan forced you, it forces everybody in America to buy something. And the President's new version forces you to buy something. The Republican does not force you to. And aside from the fact that Americans don't like to be told that you have to buy something, there's a small detail: It's not constitutional. When can the government tell you that you have to go out and buy a gun or you have to go buy a watermelon or something? That's not constitutional for the government to tell you you have to buy something. Yet, that's what's going on here.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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The speaker is discussing the constitutionality of government-mandated health insurance purchases.

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