By Larry L. Crain
On March 27, 2012, I attended the oral argument at the United States Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the mandate provision in the Affordable Care Act that would require virtually all U.S. citizens to purchase a health care policy. As a long time student of the constitution, it was intellectually riveting to see the rapid fire questions from the justices and the reaction of skilled advocates on both sides of this issue as they tried to use the force of logic to dislodge a justice from his or her seeming unswerving position.
