Posted on 07/21/2009 3:34:57 AM PDT by Scanian
'I'm personally very concerned about the cost issue," said New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, referring to Congress' health-care plans. It's "the mother of all unfunded mandates," fumed Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen.
That's just the Democratic governors.
Indeed, nearly everone from both parties at last weekend's National Governors Association conference was sounding alarms, fretting that the states will be stuck with much of the bill for "reform."
Welcome aboard, governors.
With each passing day, it seems, another voice is heard from. Last week, the Congressional Budget Office warned that reforms would fuel government costs.
The governors, in particular, fear that their states will be forced to pay for an expansion of Medicaid meant to help achieve universal health-care coverage -- even as they sweat out their existing budget woes. Indeed, their cash pinch will only grow tighter as federal stimulus money dries up over the next few years.
Which is one reason why six leading senators -- four of them Democrats -- yesterday called on President Obama to drop his hell-bent-for-leather timetable and take a 70-day timeout, to forge a bipartisan consensus.
And why a new ABC News-Washington Post poll shows public approval of Obama's handling of health care has plummeted -- from 57-29 percent positive in April to 49-44 percent.
Alas, the president yesterday remained oblivious to these concerns, reiterating the "urgent" need to "act and act now."
Big mistake.
As GOP national chairman Michael Steele yesterday noted, "If we screw this up, it could last a generation."
What's the hurry?
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State Sovereignty. The only thing that can save us, short of revolution.
What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?
Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
What part of the Constitution matters at all to this administration?
It isn't the Constitution that we need to look to for answers:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government
I suspect that what they’re really concerned about is the fact that when the Federal government spends their money, they can’t use it to buy the votes they need to stay in office. I doubt it has to do with fiscal responsibility in any way.
The more the federal government consumes the less left to the states. Many of the states are already bankrupt. So things are only going to get worse, much worse.
LLS
We’re only 1/8 the way through his term. This can’t continue for 3-1/2 more years. We’ll all be dirt poor.
I vote for revolution.
What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?
Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
You assume that the Federal Government gives a crap about the Constitution. Why?
......I vote for revolution....
Voting is passive. To exist, one must act
Then there is the question of administration. The plan will be administered on a state by state basis. That means that you must go to a doctor or facility in your state for treatment.
The poor socialists in Southwest Virginia who depend on East Tennessee for doctors and specialists and hospitals will be out of luck. They will be forced to drive 150 miles to Roanoke for first class hospitalization.
Congressman Rick Boucher is quiet on the issue
I think it is nearing time to do just that.
We are looking at ways to re-structure and try to ride this out; but if the dems continue to destroy the economy, it will be a losing battle.
Barry knows that sunlight is the best disinfectant. This can of condensed crap he's hawking as health care “reform” reeks to high heaven and the longer it is exposed the more that is known. I refuse to believe that the average person is that ignorant not to realize this after he said the exact same things before the “stimulus” (which looks like it needs some viagra at this point), and crap and tax. This notion that we are in crisis mode and every thing has to be done immediately is nothing more than a smoke screen to ram every progressive wet dream through a compliant Congress.
LLS
We need to quit jackin' around with the living, breating document chit and take the Constitiution for what is says.
What part of the Constitution exactly is it that grants the authority to the Federal Government to mandate health insurance be purchased by individuals, and grants the authority to punish through fines if they do not?Belive it or not the Constitution ISN'T mentioned ONCE in any of the 1017 pages of HR 3200. And neither is the Interstate Commerce clause.Certainly not the Interstate Commerce clause.
There is just this on Page One
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESThat's it, the 'Committee on Energy and Commerce.
JULY 14, 2009
Mr. DINGELL (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California, Mr. STARK, Mr. PALLONE, and Mr. ANDREWS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
I vote for a minor revolution...Henry Bowman has been in the batter's box for a while. John Gault just filled up the bases.
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