According to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT), the House health care bill passed last Friday empowers the federal government to imprison people for up to five years if they willfully refuse to buy federally regulated and approved health insurance.

Shomari Stone of Komo 4 News in Seattle pressed the Speaker on this point yesterday. Watch:

By Conn CarrollTonyfromOz prefaces …..Have you noticed something that has become prevalent these days. You sit and watch the TV news and current affairs TV where someone is interviewing  any politician from the Government who is in front of the cameras and behind the microphones, and the same thing applies as you watch this short [...]

…if you don’t buy into PelosiCare, you go to jail….correct?  See if Nancy Pelosi defends her bill or, liberal-fascist coward that she is, runs and hides after refusing to address the points of her own legislation:Read the applicable portions of Nancy Pelosi’s prison mandate within her Health Care Reform bill – here. [...]