If you could require people to buy health insurance, Justice Antonin Scalia wanted to know, could you require them to buy broccoli?
Real reform will require the buy-in of these stakeholders too.
One is to simply require them to buy insurance, through an individual mandate for example.
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Can Congress require you to buy wheat in order to regulate what kind of wheat you buy?
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Colorado expanded background checks to private and online gun sales but did not require them to buy ammunition.
Was it enough to create an exchange and offer subsidies, or did he need to require people to buy insurance?
They can't require you to buy a car with an anti-pollution device.
In this way the feds not only keep out the competition but also require customers to buy the services of these select few.
When do these various networks start talking to each other, or does it require somebody to buy them all up and make them one company?
In that case, you might require them to buy catastrophic coverage.
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For example, could the federal government require everyone to buy a certain amount of broccoli every year, and assess penalties for a failure to do so?
Unlike many companies, Facebook doesn't require directors to buy shares when they join the board, though Facebook "encourages" directors to own company equity, according to Facebook's corporate-governance guidelines.
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"If they decide that everyone needs to eat broccoli, " then the commerce clause could allow Congress to require everyone to buy a certain quantity of broccoli, the judge said.
But by agreeing with Barnett that Congress does not have the power to require people to buy health insurance under the Commerce Clause, he said, it was a victory anyway.
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Or, as was discussed during oral argument, Congress could require that people buy and consume broccoli at regular intervals, not only because the required purchases will positively impact interstate commerce, but also because people who eat healthier tend to be healthier, and are thus more productive and put less of a strain on the health care system.
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The most interesting idea is a proposal to require all Americans to buy health insurance.
New York expanded background checks to private gun sales and became the first state to require background checks to buy bullets.
The Democratic proposals passed by the House and Senate - in limbo for now - would require most people to buy coverage.
As it stands now, only 22 cities and two counties in California require gun dealers to buy liability insurance, according to Law Center Against Gun Violence.
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These typically do not charge for app-to-app calls, but do require the user to buy credit if they want to call or send a text to a standard mobile or landline number.
The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
The law bans a broader array of military-style weapons, restricts ammunition magazines to seven rounds from 10, creates a more comprehensive database of people barred from owning guns, and makes New York the first state to require background checks to buy bullets.
A123 said that during a ten trading day period five months following the initial closing date of the transaction and during another ten day period six months following the close, it has the right to require the investors to buy in each such period up to an additional 6, 250, 000 shares for an aggregate of up to 12.5 million additional shares.
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Their regulations require all pension funds to buy solvency insurance from a central public-sector fund.
It would require nearly all Americans to buy some form of health insurance beginning in 2014 or face financial penalties.
To get this generation, many states now require fossil fuel powered generators to buy "green tags" from, for instance, solar generators, for every unit of power sold by that fossil plant.
The government wants to require the biggest of them to buy fishing licences, certify the size of their catches and, in some cases, deploy on-board satellite navigation systems to let the authorities keep an eye on them.
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