WASHINGTON - September 16, 2009 - More legal experts are questioning the constitutionality of ObamaCare. In today’s Washington Post, two former Justice Department lawyers, David Rivkin and Lee Casey, argue that a central provision of Obama’s health-care plan - the "individual mandate" - is unconstitutional, and beyond Congress’s powers under the Constitution, such as its powers to tax and regulate interstate commerce.
Earlier, other legal experts and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights criticized major provisions of ObamaCare, such as its affirmative action and racial preferences and its intrusive regulation of medicine, as being unconstitutional.
Obama yesterday repeated his false claim that ObamaCare will not cover illegal aliens. But it effectively will cover illegal aliens, if they want coverage, as many commentators have explained, including think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, legal experts, publications like National Review, and syndicated columnists. (Most other countries do not provide national health insurance for illegal immigrants.)
Obama’s credibility is further undermined by his long line of broken promises, such as his pledge to enact a "net spending cut," which he broke by submitting budgets that will explode the national debt through $9.3 trillion in massively increased deficit spending.