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Originally Posted by merrylander
No because the government does have the right to tax. That professor from G'town (I think) who is against PPACA said Medicare is a different story and that the government can tax people to provide Medicare. The big objection he had was the government can't "tax" you to provide private health insurance. So SinglePayer would be perfecly in line with the Constitution but not Aetna, US Healthcare, etc.
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With the current makeup on the court I would venture anything could happen. Just yesterday they handed down a decision that could silence whistle blowers.
Now Limiting damages against the government to legal cost only. They just limited damages to monetary losses no longer including mental distress. Reversing case law since the seventies BTW. (Enacted after Watergate)
"Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer dissented, arguing the ruling "cripples" the 1974 Privacy Act's "core purpose of redressing and deterring violations of privacy interests," as Sotomayor wrote for the dissenters. Justice Elena Kagan was not involved in the decision because she had worked on the case while solicitor general."
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/03/28/437...-sue-feds.html
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