I caught up with Constitutional scholar Dave Kopel at the Independence Institute’s annual banquet February 16. In these two short videos, he explains why the Medicaid mandate as the individual mandate (to purchase health insurance) under ObamaCare are unconstitutional.
First Kopel argues that the Medicaid mandate violates the principles of federalism:
Next he argues that the Constitution never granted Congress the power to compel people to purchase products.
See also the complete briefs against the Medicaid mandate and the individual mandate.
