{"id":4362,"date":"2010-03-22T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2010-03-22T09:17:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T14:17:05","slug":"if-healthcare-is-a-right-why-must-obama-mandate-its-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4362\/if-healthcare-is-a-right-why-must-obama-mandate-its-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"If Healthcare Is a &#8220;Right,&#8221; Why Must Obama Mandate Its Purchase?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents of ObamaCare make the intellectually sloppy claim that <a href=\"http:\/\/jewishworldreview.com\/cols\/williams031010.php3\" target=\"_blank\">health insurance is a &#8220;right.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simultaneously, however, they insert an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askheritage.org\/Answer.aspx?ID=832\" target=\"_blank\">individual mandate<\/a> requiring American citizens to purchase that &#8220;right&#8221; as a necessary component of the bill.\u00a0 A mandate enforced by none other than the IRS, and which is potentially unconstitutional, oh by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But wait a moment.\u00a0 How is it that one can label something a &#8220;right,&#8221; and then turn around and mandate its purchase under penalty of imprisonment and IRS persecution?\u00a0 Does the Second Amendment&#8217;s individual right to keep and bear arms require that the federal government mandate firearms purchase by citizens who don&#8217;t possess them?\u00a0 Does the First Amendment right to free speech require that the federal government mandate the purchase printing presses?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s dishonest, and it&#8217;s cognitively vapid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proponents of ObamaCare make the intellectually sloppy claim that health insurance is a &#8220;right.&#8221; Simultaneously, however, they insert an individual mandate requiring American citizens to purchase that &#8220;right&#8221; as a necessary component of the bill.\u00a0 A mandate enforced by none other than the IRS, and which is potentially unconstitutional, oh by the way. But wait [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,311,24,35],"class_list":["post-4362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obama","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4366,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4362\/revisions\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}