Obamacare’s Mandate: Buy the Only Plan Available

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It’s bad enough when the federal government compels private American citizens to buy a product from a private company for the first time in all of United States history. It’s worse when there’s no choice of product.

Americans in nearly a third of the nation’s roughly 3,000 counties no longer have a choice of Obamacare plans, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation’s analysis of 2017 Obamacare offerings. In response, several Republican senators have introduced legislation to free such affected citizens from Obamacare’s individual mandate. That mandate, of course, is the unprecedented, coercive, and—
whatever the opinion of five Supreme Court justices, four of whom were nominated by President Obama or President Clinton—unconstitutional core of Obamacare.

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