Posted on 03/30/2017 4:11:25 PM PDT by Jim W N
The ONLY good, solid healthcare system that works for the most people AND is constitutional, is the market economy free of government interference. Nothing in this world is perfect and nothing will completely satisfy everyone, but freedom and the free market is way ahead of whatever's in second place.
Legal argument: The Constitution does not authorize the feds to meddle in healthcare at all. The Constitution did not create a central government to satisfy everyone. The Constitution created a central government to protect God-given individual freedom to pursue life and happiness as each individual saw fit. Why has freedom from government become such a radical idea in America which was founded on the idea of individual freedom?
Economic argument: Why would anyone want to trade the best healthcare in the world which we had until the feds began interfering in the 70’s, for the DMV or the Post Office running healthcare? "Take a number. What? You're dying? Sorry, we can't do anything about that. Sit down, and shut up. Maybe we'll call your number." Who wants some stupid bureaucracy inserting itself between you and your doctor? No one would trade freedom for tyranny unless it crept in very slowly and gradually without anyone really noticing. Creeping socialism. That is the only way we’ve reached the point where we are now.
When did the feds start unconstitutionally meddling in healthcare? When did the cost of healthcare become a problem? Both the meddling and the problems began in the 70's and it was causal, not coincidental. Everything in the free market the feds touch turns to dust and ashes. Common sense tells you that when a third party (the feds) inserts itself into a transaction, the transaction will cost more because you're also going to have to pay the third party. In this case, the third-party interference of the feds requires massive skyrocketing costs in the creation of more new, bloated, useless, and unconstitutional federal bureaucracies. Common sense.
Repeal Obamacare (“Obamabuse”) with the goal of getting the feds out of the healthcare business altogether. Although certain protections may be necessary for a one-or-two-step repeal, the repeal should be speedy followed by a quick divestment of ALL federal government involvement in healthcare. I don’t really care how or what it takes to get there and/or what kind of political maneuvering will be necessary.
My concern is that so few understand the goal itself - that healthcare must be in the market economy free of government interference. If you don’t have the right goal, you’ll never reach it.
God, by your grace, restore our Free Constitutional Republic.
Unfortunately, not too many here are interested in the Constitution, they just want a “win” for Trump.
Even if it means renaming the albatross Trumpcare.
Maybe the message is beginning to get through. Here’s a post from today that includes “unconstitutional” in the title. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3539471/posts
Haven’t seen too many of those. Hope springs eternal. By God’s grace, I’ll keep plugging away.
It’s a “work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope” (1 Thess 1:3).
GENERAL WELFARE CLAUSE. Article I, section 8 of the U. S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common defense and General Welfare of the United States.”
COMMERCE CLAUSE. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
So yeah, that’s where Congress gets the power to regulate healthcare.
Nope.
It is well settled that the “general welfare” clause is NOT an enumerated power.
The original intent of the Commerce Clause (CC) was limited to Congressional regulation for removal of hindrances between the states for commercial reasons. The clause give Congress the power to regulate commerce in order to remove protectionist and other commercial barriers to the free flow of goods and services between the states.
It has since been astonishingly expanded by Congress and ratified by SCOTUS to give the feds almost unlimited power over intrastate and local economic activities, not contemplated by the ratifiers of the Constitution. In the name of the CC, the feds now regulate well beyond interstate commercial reasons into areas such as minimum wage, individual subsidies, and just about every business enterprise and economic endeavor including interstate, intrastate, and local.
Neither the welfare clause nor the commerce clause authorizes federal interference with healthcare.
Next.
To paraphrase Lt. Glenn in “The Tuskegee Airmen”, “Everything you need to know has the words ‘United States Constitution’ on the cover. If it doesn’t, you don’t need it!”
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