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18 and a half minutes after the hour. we have a great conversation going on at our blog this morning over health care. of course one of things a lot of people have been talking about is the mandate, they have to have health insurance or get fired. i'm so tired of people whining about the mandate. that it's unconstitutional, what's the difference between this and when you own a car you're mandated to purchase car insurance. people make the point that's a state mandate and nobody is forcing you to get a car but it's a different thing. >> a couple of other people, billy wrote in, congress sent a ...

Under the senate bill empowered to set up exchanges in those states that won't set up their own. so this is a terribly difficult process. it's likely to get more ugly before it gets better. >> i don't disagree with that. i disagree on the mandate because every person in america is drawing health care and for those who don't want to pay for it and later expect to get it -- it's like car insurance. you understand risk pooling as well as i do. >> car insurance is a state mandate. it's not a national mandate. this is the first time in the history of this country we required the purchase of somethi...

Liberty. >> do i have car insurance? of course. it's a state mandate, take that up with your state. but still, nevertheless, it's not only that you are mandated you must buy insurance, which is a big sock to the insurance companies. no wonder the insurance companies are in bed with barack obama. how would you like it if you were peddling a product and the federal government said everybody has to buy your product? enormous trespass against the liberty of the individual american citizen. >> what is it solutionwise you can live with that you think works? poll after poll people do think the system...

Debate in all 50 states in both congresses, meeting what our founding fathers have said should be a constitutional amendment. fdr thought about that for the new deal. his brain trust said, let's have a constitutional memo we can have this social transformation in this country. and they said we are not going to do that because the federal courts are going to disallow it. megyn: you speak to the mandate that will result from this requiring everyone to buy health insurance. the argument you hearer side, we have it in -- you hear it on the other side, you have to buy car insurance. >> that's a sta...

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