访谈录 2010-03-23&2010-03-25 医改法案先通过再打官司

There is more than there are the lawsuits¹. More than a dozen states are going to court to challenge this health care bill claiming it’s unconstitutional. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has more on that part of the push back.

“We simply can't have Washington make the rules and we get stuck with the bill.”
Fourteen states and county,

“It's unprecedented² expansion.”

“They have the individual mandate³, held unconstitutional.”
“…does trample⁴ the constitution.”
Attorney's General from every part of a nation nearly all of them Republican are challenging the health care law in court.
“Congress exceeded its powers in terms of its requiring the individual mandate that anybody have to buy a health care policy or suffer a penalty some sort of …”
The new law does something the government has never tried before, requiring nearly everyone to buy something sold by private companies, in this case health insurance. The constitution gives Congress broad powers to regulate commerce the business of selling .But opponents of the law say while that allows Congress for example to regulate how cars are made and sold, it doesn't mean the government could require everyone to buy one. “Congress can no more make you buy insurance than it can make you buy a GM car in order to help out the government who have now subsidize GM.”
But supporters of the law say Congress have broad power to regulate things that end up having an effect on the economy. They pointed⁵ out that it ends up when people without insurance go to the emergency room for their health care.
-It's a part of the whole scheme of things that, to say that, uh, you know, you can't just slack off it soon that somebody's gonna take care of you if you have some sort of an emergency.
Tonight the justice department says it will vigorously defend the law, and some legal experts dismiss the lawsuits as a legal long shot, but they do raise a question the courts have never directly answered.

Pete Williams, NBC news at the Supreme⁶ Court.

 

1 lawsuits   

n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权，耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
• I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多，赢的也多，输的也多。 来自辞典例句

2 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

3 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

4 trample   

vt.踩，践踏；无视，伤害，侵犯

参考例句：

• Don't trample on the grass. 勿踏草地。
• Don't trample on the flowers when you play in the garden. 在花园里玩耍时,不要踩坏花。

5 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

6 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。