Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance Is Unprecedented and Unconstitutional

An individual mandate to enter into a contract with or buy a particular product from a private party is literally unprecedented, not just in scope but in kind, and unconstitutional either as a matter of first principles or under any reasonable reading of judicial precedents.

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