Health care reform is constitutional - Erwin Chemerinsky - POLITICO.com

Those opposing health care reform are increasingly relying on an argument that has no legal merit: that the health care reform legislation would be unconstitutional. There is, of course, much to debate about how to best reform America’s health care system. But there is no doubt that bills passed by House and Senate committees are constitutional.

via www.politico.com

This article at Politico.com addresses a long-running question on The Opinion Blog: Does the U.S. Constitution permit the government to mandate everyone buy health insurance? The author makes a number of arguments - do they persuade you personally, and, separately, do you think they'll hold up in court?

Here's the "unconstitutional" argument, by the way: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28463.html