That is the precedent that is in question here! That law forces us all to buy a pension plan. Does it impinge on our freedoms, yes, to a degree. But it is clearly for the better good, if you consider the alternative of elderly and sickly people dying on the street!
Emergency room care for the poor is in question here too!
If the Supreme Court sets a precedent that the government cannot force citizens to purchase things necessary for their basic humane survival then these other laws are in jeopardy, for real.
Since Ronald Reagan enacted the law forcing hospitals to treat indigent emergency room patients, that has meant that all people, did in fact, have a health care plan! The Obama Adjustment to our present 'health care situation' only asks people who can afford it, to help pay for what they already have!
Let me play Clark Howard for a minute. Let's say you are just now eligible for SS and you won't reach your full 'pay-in' for ten years. First, you have to realize that many people (perhaps not you) would really need that money right now to survive and a large number wouldn't have saved enough or invested wisely enough, to have enough now, even if they had never had to pay into SS.
But let's assume you do have enough, or would have saved and invested wisely. The question is 'What do we do with the rest?' Or, what would we do if there were overwhelming numbers of homeless elderly people, on our streets? I mean millions more than we have. The answer during the Great Depression turned out to be horrific. At first it was just blankets and soup-lines and alleys and tents. Tragic.
What we found was, that as good, mostly God fearing Americans we didn't want to live in that world no matter how much money we had.
See below post for more examples.
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