Health-Magazine-Subscription Reform: Mandatory subscriptions WOULD BE CONSTITUTIONAL, right?

Constitutionally, the government has the power to "regulate interstate commerce", correct?

Therefore, the government would have the right to force people to purchase health-magazine subscriptions [with content on improving diet, nutrition, health, exercise, fitness], correct?

Here is the 10-point program that I propose:

1) These health-related magazine subscriptions [produced and distributed through private corporations -- thus we avoid the appearance of nationalized health care] would be made available in "public exchanges" online.

2) The magazines and their editorial policies would be thoroughly reviewed by federally-certified doctors to make sure they promote federally-approved drugs, therapies, and surgeries.

3) A primary aim of the program is to reach those people who currently lack health-magazine subscriptions. [The aim of this program is not to increase the profits of privately-owned health-magazine corporations and their corporate advertising clients.]

4) This program cannot really work efficiently unless all participate, that’s why it must be a mandatory program. The price of health-magazine subscriptions has risen dramatically, because too many people are getting sick, and not enough healthy people are buying them.

5) This program would help slow the rising costs of health-magazine subscriptions, and who knows, could eventually even bring down the costs of health-magazine subscriptions. However, this program would require people to buy a scubscription at whatever the free-market prices are. [OK, perhaps technically that last bit should read be "enhanced free-market" prices.]

6) Forced buyers of low income would be federally-subsidized, and…

7) the best way to pay for this program would be to tax the people who have been the most successful. Since these people already have easy-access to health-magazine-subscriptions, they shouldn’t mind helping to provide others with similar subscriptions.

This program would over time reduce the national deficit, because expert government accountants have done the projections, and that’s what the projections show.

9) If people were forced to spend money as soon as the law were passed, they might not see the program in a balanced way — so the forced-purchase part would only kick in about 4 years later (well beyond the next presidential election in 2012).

10) However, many of the taxes implemented by this program would kick in immediately.

This reform would not be socialism or fascism, as long as constitutionally-elected and legally-lobbied representatives voted it into law.

[Coming soon: Federally-mandated purchases of multiple-vitamins -- the vitamins would be produced by private corporations, under federal guidelines, of course]

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No. Regulating commerce does not equal requiring individuals to purchase anything, except in Bizarro Obama world..