Ken Klukowski: Health insurance isn't car insurance, Mr. President | Washington Examiner

Ken Klukowski: Health insurance isn't car insurance, Mr. President | Washington Examiner: "Asked about the constitutionality of his healthcare bill’s key provision, President Obama said it’s legal because people have to buy car insurance. That statement is so dead wrong as a matter of constitutional law that it makes anyone who practices constitutional law wonder how the Harvard Law School faculty would now grade their most famous graduate.

On Nov. 9, the president was asked by ABC’s Jake Tapper about the constitutionality of the individual mandate that requires Americans to purchase insurance under threat of imprisonment or other sanctions.

Obama responded that it works, “in the same way that everybody has to get auto insurance and if you don’t, you’re subject to some penalty… there’s nothing wrong with [that] penalty.”

Oh my word. No, Mr. President, healthcare insurance is not like car insurance. There are two enormous differences, both of which make it a slam-dunk as to why car insurance can be required sometimes, but healthcare cannot."