President Barack Obama’s universal health care initiative, affectionately identified as “Obama Care,” stalled at the foot of the United States Supreme Court as judicial officials battle over constitutional inconsistencies within the tentative law’s individual mandate.

The opposing argument against the constitutional integrity of the universal health care mandate involves many intricate factors, including, but not limited to the potential for U.S. government commerce monopolization, over-stepping of government regulations regarding societal freedom rights on both sides of the coin, and a disconnect between the needs of the people and good ol’ well-intentioned, corrective legislation.

We all should want to understand the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s crown jewel of legislation. The act has quickly become the face of Obama’s presidential tenure amidst all the political theatrics involved because the legislation could potentially provide care to more than 30 million uninsured Americans.

The reality is forced health care is already an undisputed and prevailing practice in at least one American institution: colleges and universities.

Similar to provisions within Obama Care, the college scenario forces fees for health care onto the student by way of a relatively reasonable tuition addendum. The sensibility of it all is basically so the school is covered, bearing a major health services emergency for a non-insured student.

In both scenarios, college and country, if not for the mandated care plan, responsibility for the final bill of a major hospitalization or procedure for a non-covered individual falls to the community, taxpayers and/or monies derived from other needed services. Instead, how about less school closures and more public parks? Anyone?

The numbers related to the institution of this health insurance act have congressional budget officials on both sides of the bargaining table apprehensive. Liberal analysts report that repealing the mandate could potentially cost nearly $210 billion towards the deficit, with conservative financial analysts predicting a whopping $340 billion added to the deficit if the act passes Supreme Court scrutiny.

I argue the point of contention between the president’s goals for the American people and the critique by non-liberals would exist even if the issue was as simple as people being forced to wear sunscreen in the sun — darn that meddlesome skin cancer, right?

This is actually a really simple issue: simple enough for many colleges and universities to have engaged in the practice of imposing mandated health care plans onto students for years now. President Obama’s prized legislation makes a boatload of sense. Consider this, society has long droned on within a monotonous cycle of work, bills, eat then sleep, with responsibility of how these parts are satisfied being left up to the individual.

Why not add health care into the fold? Why not make everyone responsible for his or her own life and limb? As a civilized country, why have we not transitioned into this realm of responsibility at this point in time befuddles me. Too often emergency rooms see the sick, broken and bruised bodies of our nation, but not often enough those respective pocketbooks.

The rational of the Affordable Care Act cannot be solely gauged by the language of a 250-year-old document, especially one that had to be appropriately amended to acknowledge the rights of women as equal to men and to treat African-Americans in a civil manner.

In understanding Obama Care, we should all understand the Constitution of the United States should represent the best interest of all Americans.

Affordable health care, in title and definition, makes sense on every level. No amount of opposition, no matter how “supreme” or “conservative” should cause unnecessary grief to tax-paying Americans, nor affect the care which could be consistently available to patients in need, as long as we all cover our share.