Repeal? Yes! Replace? No!! The federal government has never been given the authority to regulate health care or the insurance industry.
Senator McCain, rip out this abomination existing under color of law by the roots and destroy it. Then read the Tenth Amendment and keep your nose out of the insurance industry!
“The federal government has never been given the authority to regulate health care or the insurance industry.”
Yes, it has.
“Article I Section 8
“The Congress shall have Power .... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;”
That’s where the government gets the power to issue patents that allow drugs to be expensive.
“And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers”
And that’s why the government has the power to regulate insurers - they buy about $100 billion worth of drugs a year. Probably only Ford, General Motors and Wal-Mart have a larger impact on American commerce than health insurers do.
I certainly don’t think the PPACA is proper since it has major design flaws and regulates pure services such as most psychiatric care and physical therapy, but it is undoubtedly necessary (for some Americans who need expensive drugs, etc.).