Comments on: Let’s Fix Health Care… Just Not This Way

By: Mit

Mit — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:35:08 +0000

You have to be incredibly stupid to accept a $trillion dollar universal healthcare program, but I guess thats not so far fetched when you realize we elected a program tax and spend liberal like Obama who wants to impoverish the entire country into one big community organized acorn communist welfare state. As for me, I’ll cling to my gun, my religion and my current health care plan. Go back to Hell where you came from Obama!

By: Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:18:01 +0000

There are many problems that when taken together could lower care costs right now – liability insurance is one. One of the things that bother me is that if you have health insurance, the insurance company, by virtue of negotiation, pays less than the charge on the bill. If you have no insurance, you pay the charge on the bill. I would buy catastrophic insurance if I could pay for everything non- catastrophic at the same rate the insurance companies pay.

Plus, I agree that it is not the Federal Governments job to provide it.

By: D. Birdman

D. Birdman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:54:10 +0000

We do not need socialized medicine.

We do not need leftist euphemisms for socialism.

By: B. Johnson

B. Johnson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:50:10 +0000

The problem with federal healthcare that most people seem to be overlooking is the following. Given that the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for healthcare to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.

In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

The problem is that state sovereignty, a basic constitutional principle, has been long forgotten. So until people reconnect with the Constitution and force the corrupt federal government back on its constitutional leash, federal government interference in people’s lives is going to get worse.