BY FROMA HARROP There was never much doubt that the individual mandate in “ObamaCare” was constitutional. As Harvard Law School professor Einer Elhauge had noted, the first Congress in 1790 passed a law ordering ship owners to buy medical insurance for their seamen. Twenty framers of the U.S. Constitution were members, and President George Washington signed the law. No, the emotional claim that forcing people to buy a commercial product stomps on basic American rights […]
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