The 'hideous monster' unleashed by the Obamacare decision

Quote: from minority opinion AGAINST Obamacare

Here, however, Congress has impressed into service third parties, healthy individuals who could be but are not customers of the relevant industry, to offset the undesirable consequences of the regulation. 

Congress’ desire to force these individuals to purchase insurance is motivated by the fact that they are further removed from the market than unhealthy individuals with pre-existing conditions, because they are less likely to need extensive care in the near future. 

If Congress can reach out and command even those furthest removed from an interstate market to participate in the market, then the Commerce Clause becomes a font of unlimited power, or in Hamilton’s words, "the hideous monster whose devouring jaws . . . spare neither sex nor age, nor high nor low, nor sacred nor profane." The Federalist No. 33, p. 202 (C. Rossiter ed. 1961).

Congress taps the tree of Life--our life's blood drains to feed the growing monster of big government.

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(illustration from the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, Melkor and Ongoliant destroying the trees of the Valar)