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"  The Supreme Court&amp;#039;s much-anticipated tackling of health-care reform this week would be of little interest to this blog were it not for the sudden star turn of broccoli. During the debate on the Affordable Care Act, Antonin Scalia asked the sort of question that only Supreme Court justices and Yale Law Journal editors (and Fox News) can get away with: Is broccoli the same as health insurance? If the government can force you to buy one, why not the other? Hey, there&amp;#039;s a market for broccoli, and it&amp;#039;s good for you. If we allow Congress to write laws like this, how long until we get the Broccoli Act? Thanks to Scalia, broccoli has never been so controversial nor important-seeming. Is health insurance like broccoli? Can the Affordable Care mandate pass the &amp;quot;broccoli test&amp;quot;? A cheeky poll on the Guardian&amp;#039;s Web site is asking readers whether Americans should be forced to buy broccoli (57 percent say &amp;quot;yes,&amp;quot; by the way). For their part, the broccoli people are choosing to view all press as good press, and maybe hoping just a little bit that, as a result of some sort of legal precedent, one day Americans really will be forced to eat their vegetables. Unfortunately for those in favor of Obama&amp;#039;s health-care plan, Solicitor General Don Verrilli didn&amp;#039;t do so hot when faced with the broccoli challenge, unable to make a convincing distinction and, in the opinion of some experts, putting the government&amp;#039;s case at risk. On a brighter note, how about Sheila D&amp;#039;Agostino&amp;#039;s Broccoli-Herb Casserole tonight? Legal questions aside, it&amp;#039;s sure to put any broccoli doubts to rest. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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