This is the question being raised across the country and many states are threatening to sue over the health care reform bill’s mandated health insurance requirement.

According to The Seattle Times writer Bruce Ramsey, “The individual mandate to buy health insurance is a key part of the Democrats’ health-care plan. Their package, if they can pass it now, doesn’t work without the mandate. But is it constitutional?” He expands more in his article about why it may not be constitutional and that the Supreme Court could go either way on the decision.