Obamacare: Barack Obama says the healthcare mandate shouldn’t be controversial

  On his three day this is not a campaign event bus tour Barack Obama tried to defend the recently redeclared (it may not be a word, but I like it!) unconstitutional healthcare mandates claiming it “should not be controversial:”

Here’s the problem – if an insurance company has to take you, has to insure you, even if you’re sick but you don’t have an individual mandate, then what would everybody do? They would wait until they get sick and then you’d buy health insurance, right?” Obama told an audience at the first stop of his bus tour in Cannon Falls, Minnesota on Monday.

“The basic theory is, look, everybody here at some point or another is going to need medical care and you can’t be a free rider on everybody else. You can’t not have health insurance then go to the emergency room and each of us, who have done the responsible thing and have health insurance, suddenly we have to pay the premiums for you. That’s not fair.”

Obama continued, “So if you can afford it, you should get health insurance just like you get car insurance. This should not be controversial but it has become controversial partly because of people’s view that – well, let me just say this, you’ve got a governor who’s running for president right now who instituted the exact same thing in Massachusetts

  In a way I can almost understand that reasoning–if you are going to force healthcare providers to cover people with pre-existing conditions than people should have to buy insurance in order to protect the insurance providers from people taking advantage of the situation. But the problem here is the fact that the Obama regime shouldn’t be forcing  insurance companies to cover people with pre-existing conditions in the first place–and that is something that Barack Obama is glossing over.

Because the Obama regime is over-regulating the insurance companies, and forcing them to provide unsustainable coverage to people who haven’t paid into the system they have been forced to place never before seen regulations on ordinary Americans just for committing the crime of being Americans.

  And he doesn’t think that this is something that is controversial? So far the courts have been almost evenly split on the healthcare mandate and this issue will eventually be heard by the Supreme Court, so yeah, whether Barack Obama likes it or not this is an extremely controversial topic and if the Supreme Court rules that the federal government can force a person to buy healthcare insurance there is no longer a limit on what the federal government can demand a citizen do in the name of the common good.