And everyone has a legal opinion:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/06/The-Enumera ted-Powers-Act-A-First-Step-Toward-Constitutional-Government
To save you the trouble, this deals with the repeated commerce clause and the consistent manner that the government steps outside of acting within enumerated powers - of which mandated health care does not fall.
Look - I'm in favor of some sort of national health care; just not this atrocious pile of horse droppings as it stands now. The way it sets now, it will control us, not the other way around. Where are doctors supposed to come from? Nurses? Hospitals? The every increasing specialists? Long term care people?
Who is going to pay them? Who determines if they are doing a good job? Where is the accountability? Who decides what meds are approved and which aren't (even when they work but are deemed too expensive to the system)
See, what I am describing is very real right now - its called the VA, and I am an outpatient therein. I see these matters ever time I go there; I don't have access to the same meds indigents in Midland County have, because the feds decided they were too expensive, whereas the County decided illegals and homeless were in fact worth the money. I have to wait 5-10 YEARS for a knee replacement...
This is the picture of government health care as it stands right now - if this is what you want for the entire nation, be my guest, as this is what it will come to once the Federales grab power of the entire mess