Because the purchase mandates can drive up electricity rates significantly, some states, including New Jersey and Colorado, are considering softening the requirements on utilities.
"Washington has unlimited power to impose new purchase mandates and the courts will find them constitutional if Congress calls them taxes," the editors wrote, "or even if it calls them something else and judges call them taxes".
Jamie Court, the president of Consumer Watchdog, a liberal advocacy group, said, "The health insurance purchase mandate is not necessary for health care reform to work".
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) questioned Wednesday night if a federal broccoli purchase mandate would follow the individual mandate on health care reform.
The president's nominee for the Supreme Court should be defeated by filibuster exclusively because he (or she) will inevitably vote to uphold as constitutional the unconstitutional health care insurance purchase mandate.
Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration...With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1...Missouri was the first of four states to seek to opt out of the insurance purchase mandate portion of the health care law that had been pushed by Obama.
In eschewing purchasing mandates, they run into the issue of younger people being unlikely to sign up for coverage.
Rather than asserting a blanket federal right to introduce purchasing mandates, Verrilli argued that health care, for a variety of reasons, was a special case.
The domestic purchasing mandate, known as the "preferential market access" policy, seeks to address a real problem: imports of electronics are growing so fast that by 2020, they are projected to eclipse oil as the developing country's largest import expense.
But then Justice Ginsburg comes back at him very sharply: Consider the chain of inferences the Court would have to accept to conclude that a vegetable-purchase mandate was likely to have a substantial effect on the health-care costs borne by lithe Americans.
Let us recommit to expanding the territory of what is politically possible, and the rhetorical purchase and mandate for policies that affirm universal human rights, the rights of communities, and the preservation of our biosphere.
