[LUconn]

I thought it was all over but this could be interesting:

http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.c ... abc312e868

Ensign, DeMint to Force Vote on Health Care Bill Unconstitutionality

December 22, 2009 - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign (R-Nevada), raised a Constitutional Point of Order on the Senate floor against the Democrat health care takeover bill on behalf of the Steering Committee, a caucus of conservative senators. The Senate will vote tomorrow on the bill’s constitutionality.

“I am incredibly concerned that the Democrats’ proposed individual mandate provision takes away too much freedom and choice from Americans across the country,” said Senator Ensign. “As an American, I felt the obligation to stand up for the individual freedom of every citizen to make their own decision on this issue. I don’t believe Congress has the legal authority to force this mandate on its citizens.”

This is a main pillar of what is wrong with this whole Health Care agenda, and it in turn attacks a main pillar of the bill: forcing young healthy people to subsidize the sickly expensive people. On the other hand, I'm not too sure what forcing a vote about it is going to do. I would think it would be 60-40 no matter what anybody thought about it's constitutionality. You'd need SCOTUS to rule on that and who knows what they're thinking half the time.

[4everfsu]

Forcing a final vote may give more ammunition to ousting those for HC in 2010. The HC opponents can use this maybe in campaign ads, etc.