Natl health – is ‘individual mandate’ unconstitutional?

Two conservative scholars argue that, at the federal level, it is indeed, and claim that federal carrots-and-sticks, like with highway money vs. DWI blood-alcohol levels, can’t expand the Commerce Clause that far.

Good, if it forces the “public option” to be more supported by the likes of Blue Dog Dems, who don’t want a national healthcare plan getting potentially blown up by the Supreme Court.

That’s even as another, non-conservative, group promotes San Francisco’s employer mandate plus public-option lite as a possible path to go.