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Charles Fried: the individual mandate is fully constitutional because Congress unquestionably has the power to regulate the interstate…

On the recordFebruary 15, 2011
the individual mandate is fully constitutional because Congress unquestionably has the power to regulate the interstate health and insurance markets
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Charles Fried

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Charles Fried defends the constitutionality of the individual mandate in health care.

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I think the idea that one can make a choice not to seek health care throughout one's life is simply not realistic and cannot be the basis for an attack on the constitutionality.

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I am quite sure that the health care mandate is constitutional.

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As a citizen, not a subject, may I say that what the Senate has shown and this Committee has shown is our government at its best.

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