preexisting condition ~= takes an expensive drug, takes illegal drugs often, or has severe mental condition not responsive to drugs
The purpose of the PPACA was and is prop up Big Pharma. It is constitutional as per the Commerce Clause.
The University of California at San Francisco is a leading center for drug development and it is in Nancy’s district.
Nancy Pelosi smiled more than anyone else when the PPACA became law.
Thank you for your patience with this discussion.
Again, FDR’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices wrongly ignored previous Supreme Court clarification of the already reasonably clear interpretation of the Commerce Clause, that the Founding States never gave the feds the specific power to stick their big noses (my wording) into the affairs of the sovereign states, when the justices scandalously decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor imo.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 3: To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; "
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Note that the Supreme Court’s clarifications that the Founding States never gave the feds the specific powers to regulate either INTRAstate healthcare or intrastate commerce appear consecutively in the same sentence!
So in order for the federal government to establish national healthcare like Obamacare, the states must first appropriately amend the Constitution to give the feds the specific power to do so, something that the states have never done.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Again, Obamacare is unconstitutional (imo) because Speaker Pelosi seemingly tried to pull a fast one by scandalously (imo) ignoring a formal resolution to petition the states for a healthcare amendment to the Constitution.
H.J.Res. 30 (111th): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States regarding the right of citizens of the United States to health care of equal high quality
If she had followed through with the resolution, and the states had ratified the proposed healthcare amendment, then we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
The problem remains that the states probably cannot find the revenues that they need to establish all the 10th Amendment-based social spending programs that their respective citizens want because the post-17th Amendment ratification, unconstitutionally big federal government keeps stealing state revenues in the form of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Patriots need to fix this situation by electing a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only fully support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also do this.
New patriot lawmakers also need to support PDJT in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers, and surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)