healthcare.

""This is a tax or a penalty on just living, and that's unconstitutional," he said of the mandate to purchase health coverage. "There's no provision in the Constitution of the United States giving Congress the power to do that.""
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/03/22/health.care.lawsuit/index.html?hpt=T1

i may have to agree with this statement by Bill McCollum, the Republican attorney general of Virginia. To require insurance for any individual seems to be some sort of tax on living and existing. Does it not? Yes, the uninsured do put a strain on the current system. However, the requirement of the government to acquire insurance seems quite...radical. I get that other countries do this. I get that it's to help people out. I get that. but, i do tend to agree that the american government wasn't really set up on such grounds as to require this. we must at least admit to ourselves that the face of american government is forever shifting with this passing of the healthcare bill. at least admit that much. it's the largest reform of this kind in centuries. it will change the way americans live. it will impact our kids. it will impact you. it is scary...b/c change is scary. unknown is scary. do i think it will screw me over? probably...but i'm always a pessimist. do i understand it completely? no...not even a large smidgen. but, i do know it will impact you....and most american just like living without the influence of the government. (unless of course you are gaining some benefit...).