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America could use a lot more socialism right now.

One Florida judge has ruled against many other federal decisions.

Congress was within its constitutional authority to regulate interstate commerce when it included a requirement in the health care reform law that individuals purchase insurance or pay a fine, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled on Tuesday.

With this ruling, Kessler becomes the third federal district court judge to rule in favor of the law’s constitutionality.

“Congress had a rational basis for its conclusion that the aggregate of individual decisions not to purchase health insurance substantially affects the national health insurance market,” wrote Kessler. Persons who don’t purchase insurance “will ultimately get a ’free ride’ on the backs of those Americans who have made responsible choices to provide for the illness we all must face at some point in our lives,” she added.

The rational basis test is the least demanding of the tests to determine a law’s constitutionality. So if higher courts apply the same test, that has to be a good sign for the law’s continuation.

There is little question among constitutional scholars that the individual mandate is in fact constitutional. The argument against, is that congress does not have the powers to dictate that every citizen must buy a commercial product. But the affordable health care law does not require that. It merely says that if any citizen buys health care insurance they will get a tax break ...if they don't they don't get the break. The incentive is not forced and anyone has the right to not buy insurance ... they will just have a higher tax bill if they don't . The desired result is there will be no freeloading on the health care system.

This tax incentive is not surprisingly a republican idea ( they love tax breaks). Had George Bush Senior been elected to a second term, he assuredly would have proposed and signed just such a bill. He advocated and supported the concept of the individual mandate enforced by tax incentives.

Had GHWB been re-elected we would be now be calling it "Bush Care" instead of "Obama Care".

Gottlieb is correct... In that your old healthcare can not be kept exactly as it was.

It will be better fairer and more equitable. Your old plan had a cap on what you could claim. Then it could throw you out without health care, even if you paid all your premiums on time. That practice ends next year.

Your old plan threw your kids off to fend for themselves at 18. That is no longer happening.

Under your old plan you much were more likely to die or go bankrupt if you got really sick or injured.

I say it is a good thing that we can't keep our old plan exactly as it was in the bad ole days.

Superior health care for the wealthy elite has been in effect for decades as the poor were left to die, that is ending with the Affordable Health care law.