'"Purchase insurance in this case, something else in the next case,' Roberts said."

http://www.mercurynews.com/nation-world/ci_20265654/supreme-courts-sharp-questions-leave-health-care-overhaul

Supreme Court's sharp questions leave health care overhaul in serious doubt

By Mark Sherman and Jesse J. Holland

Associated Press

Posted:   03/27/2012 10:37:17 AM PDT

Updated:   03/27/2012 10:37:18 AM PDT

"The biggest issue, to which the justices returned repeatedly during two hours of arguments in a packed courtroom, was whether the government can force people to buy insurance. And if so, could other mandates -- to buy broccoli, burial insurance

and cell phones, for example -- be far behind?

"Purchase insurance in this case, something else in the next case," Roberts said.

Kennedy at one point said that allowing the government mandate would "change the relationship" between the government and U.S. citizens."