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When the health care law makes it to the Supreme Court, the justices will ask, with varying degrees of concern, this age-old question: How do we define the limits, because limits there must be, on this federal power? - Jason Mazzone

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The central question before the courts has not been whether
the health care market substantially affects interstate commerce,
a point largely accepted by all sides.
Rather, the issue has been a semantic one:
determining whether the act of not obtaining insurance is best defined as activity or,
as Virginia's solicitor general,
E. Duncan Getchell Jr., has argued in the Richmond case, "inactivity" that is beyond Congress's reach.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/article?a=714320&f=19&p=1

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/opinion/17mazzone.html?hpw

P.S Hippocrates was a Greek physician born in 460 BC on the island of Cos, Greece. He became known as the founder of medicine and was regarded as the greatest physician of his time. He based his medical practice on observations and on the study of the human body. He held the belief that illness had a physical and a rational explanation. He rejected the views of his time that considered illness to be caused by superstitions and by possession of evil spirits and disfavor of the gods.

Hippocrates held the belief that the body must be treated as a whole and not just a series of parts.

He accurately described disease symptoms and was the first physician to accurately describe the symptoms of pneumonia, as well as epilepsy in children. He believed in the natural healing process of rest, a good diet, fresh air and cleanliness. He noted that there were individual differences in the severity of disease symptoms and that some individuals were better able to cope with their disease and illness than others. He was also the first physician that held the belief that thoughts, ideas, and feelings come from the brain and not the heart as others of him time believed.

Hippocrates traveled throughout Greece practicing his medicine. He founded a medical school on the island of Cos, Greece and began teaching his ideas. He soon developed an Oath of Medical Ethics for physicians to follow. This Oath is taken by physicians today as they begin their medical practice. He died in 377 BC. Today Hippocrates is known as the "Father of Medicine".

http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/early/2010/11/30/jama.2010.1797.abstract