Posted on 11/04/2009 6:02:52 AM PST by frposty
House Republicans have produced a draft proposal of their own. It's much shorter and focuses on bringing down costs rather than extending coverage to nearly all Americans.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We don’t need 200+ pages to speak the truth:
The US Government has NO CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY to meddle in the health care of the citizenry.
Simple, concise, no BS.
It’s time to take back the country.
It’s STILL about 200 pages too long.
Does the GOP bill permit interstate commerce in health insurance?
Now that I'm on Medicare, I'm paying $96 a month to the Fed Gov plus paying for the supplement.
Now, the gov has THOUSANDS of dollars that I already paid. Where'd it go??
You are right, unfortunately the government is already involved. I we could do something about Tort Reform and allow insurers to sell across state lines, that would get government out of the way and let the free market set the price, which would drop drastically. If you chose not to have insurance so be it, but the government restrictions already in place are preventing insurance from being “affordable”.
Maybe idiot Conyers will read THIS one.
There ought to be a law against any solution that starts out, “There ought to be a law ...” The government is already way too involved in the whole health-care situation.
Nahh...when in doubt, make them sweat it out.
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229 pages too many.
It's also, unfortunately, the first that the GOP leadership has chosen to acknowledge as a "GOP health care bill."
It's also, unfortunately, the first that the GOP leadership has chosen to acknowledge as a "GOP health care bill."
It's also, unfortunately, the first that the GOP leadership has chosen to acknowledge as a "GOP health care bill."
The only exception to your post I take - is if the 200+ pages repeal the majority of federal controls and manipulation of the health care industry - and you can count on it taking at least that many pages to do it!
But to the core of your post - you are 100% correct. There is NO Constitutional authority for the Feds to have anything to say about health care, other than possibly the regulation of the trade in medications across state lines - that is interstate commerce.
DOn’t know why it appeared three times. I only clicked once. Sorry.
You are correct. That includes federal tort reform, which is a federal power grab, and the “buying across state lines” issue, which is also a federal power grab, and an attempt to nullify state laws. Not that anyone really cares.
If you mean "regulate interstate commerce" in the sense that it was understood at the time of the founding, it only pertains to duties and imposts and tariffs. All "regulation of interstate commerce" was supposed to mean was that states couldn't impose tariffs against other states. It was supposed to end interstate trade wars.
Of course, nowadays, it means they can do just about anything they want. And as the court has held as recently as 2005 (with Scalia joining the liberal majority) the interstate commerce clause, when combined with the "necessary and proper" clause, allows the feds to regulate activity that is not interstate, and that is not commerce.
All of which goes to show that the Constitution itself was fundamentally flawed from the very start. I look forward to the day when right-thinking people figure that out.
You are correct - which certainly limits the touch of the Federal Government, doesn’t it?!
Amazing how far we have fallen from our Founding Father’s original intent (which is a good read, mind you).
You can’t write a bill with the appropriate legal language without a couple hundred pages, especially when there are already dozens of enacted bills that have to be addressed in your legislation.
It’s a sad fact of our lawmaking that we write too many laws, which makes writing new laws hopelessly complicated.
You could easily have a dozen pages in the bill which do nothing more than say that the bill doesn’t change some other current law.
It’s the first one that was approved by the entire caucus, not just authored by a few republicans.
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