Posted on 09/25/2013 7:18:18 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 09/25/2013 7:31:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Neither health care or insurance are enumerated powers for the central government to be involved in or control. Period. They are clearly reserved to the states and the people by the constitution. Doesn't matter how poor people are or how sick. The federal government has no constitutional power to intervene.
The democrats can rant and rave and present millions of sob stories about sick people, but that does not change the constitution. We're now going to have millions of sob stories from closed businesses, from people who lose their jobs, from people who have their hours and pay reduced and lose access to healthcare altogether. Obamacare will cause more damage to the free economy and cause more people to lose their healthcare than who gain. All while increasing the costs and reducing quality and eventually bankrupting the insurance companies. It's impossible for free enterprise to succeed in a socialist environment with government subsidies. You're going to have one or the other. Socialism or freedom.
Obamacare is spread-the-wealth-around Marxism (socialism). We're going to take from those who have and give to those who don't. And many of those you take it from will lose all. If self-employed, many will lose their business or can't grow their business. Many of the currently employed will lose pay, lose jobs, lose their homes, lose their families and lose their healthcare.
Most of those who receive healthcare under this socialist program will remain poor. They won't get a job. They won't build a business. They won't get an education. They will remain on the government dole. They and their children will remain dependent on the government plantation, many times generation after generation. Socialism promotes long-term poverty and dependence.
Socialist healthcare will destroy the healthcare industry. Sorry, democrats, but profit makes the world go 'round. Remove the profit motive by controlling payments for services, you cut the quality of service. Just a given. Dump a flood of millions of additional patients into a declining industry, you get scarcity, delay, reduced quality, rationing, and eventually death panels. It happens in every country that tries it. Just a fact of life.
The socialist Obamacare does not improve any problem. It makes it worse. Would be far better to abide by the constitution and keep the feds out. The constitution leaves healthcare to the states and the people. If there are any federal laws restricting free trade in healthcare, they should be stricken from the books. Let the states and insurance companies compete nationwide. Get a handle on the ambulance chasers and the lawsuit shakedown industry. Offer some sort of incentive for personal healthcare accounts. Work with states and local governments to build charity hospitals and walk-in clinics for the poor. The poor and or uninsurable should not be turned away, but we shouldn't shred our constitution or turn our entire society upside down to insure them either. Healthcare for the poor or sick who cannot possibly pay has always been funded by charity or local governments and that's the way it should be. If the feds would keep its nose out of affairs where it has no constitutional authority, there might be more room for state and local governments and charities to pick up the slack.
Furthermore, Obamacare destroys the constitutional limits on government. It sets the SCOTUS approved precedent that there are no limits whatsoever on what the government can force on the people, nor any individual right that cannot be violated, nor any states right that cannot be violated. The central government is all powerful. That's totally upside down and inside out.
And it also eliminates the separation of powers. It allows the president and the SCOTUS to rewrite legislation without congressional input or approval.
It in fact, nullifies our constitution and bill of rights and turns America into a benevolent dictatorship.
(which of course was always the point)
I’m sure the entire piece is spot on, but the header pretty much sums it up.....(now I’ll go read all of it)
H/T Mark Levin and CSteven Tucker
CSteven Tucker
GOOD LORD! How did this nation EVER SURVIVE the following ‘government shut downs’?
Government shut down EVERY YEAR during the Carter administration.
1976 - two times for 10 days
1977 - three times for 12 days, 8 days and 10 days
1978 for 17 days
1979 for 11 days
1981 for 2 days
1982 two times for 1 day and 3 days
1983 for 3 days
1985 twice for 2 days and 1 day
1986 once for 1 day
1995 twice for 5 days and 21 days
1995 took 2 seats in the Senate and lost 2 seats in the House and we got Welfare reform.
Let’s recap:
6 times in 8 years of the Reagan administration
3 times during the Bush administration
2 times during the Clinton administration
My GOD, how WILL we SURVIVE if it happens ONCE during the Obama administration?
h/t Mark Levin
bttt
Socialism removes incentive to perform beyond the scope of regulation and mediocrity. It kills hope and never changes.
benevolent, my ass.
On spot!
Yup. Have ordered the book. The articles I’ve read sound pretty positive and listening to Mark I like it and will join his effort.
If an attractive and professional looking chart were made listing all of the harmful effects that Obamacare is going to create and the actual costs involved in an easy to understand and factual bullet point format i think it would have good effect if posted online on strategically chosen websites. I think It would be even more effective if written in an objective manner without emotion attached. Both parties understand $$$ being extracted from their pants pockets.
Should have gotten that to Cruz yesterday so it could have gone on record.
well put Jim
In Colorado you have to have an insurance producers license to sell insurance. Are the “navigators” going to be licensed? Hell no!
I REALLY WISH THAT WERE TRUE...sorry caps on
I have talked to liberals and their eyes are glassed over..........they REALLY do not understand what you are saying
I have grown frustrated trying to teach and inform, facts mean nothing
I am at the point, liberals can all phuque themselves and crawl away
Count me in!!
Did you have the chance to watch Cruz last night? And Mike Lee? They covered all of it, and more. Lee took the SCOTUS to the woodshed, it was amazing!
I literally wept last night when Senator Cruz read the Hobby Lobby letter, and exactly what the ramifications of this nightmare truly are. Religious freedom being denied just scares the heck out of me.
Thank you for writing this out in your rather eloquent manner. I’m grateful for having found your site and being allowed to participate. Your work is inspiring.
I did, about 10-11 hours. It was awesome. Cruz and Lee were outstanding. Kudos to Sessions. Yes, Lee was brilliant concerning SCOTUS.
Last night Sen. Cruz revealed something that needs to be shouted to the rooftops. Sen. Cruz learned from Sen. Reid that the health care “train wreck,” due to Obamacare is the expected result. It’s intended purpose is to destroy our free market system of medicine (think of the job losses this would create). Sen. Reid knows that when Obamacare destroys the free market health care system, it would cause a crisis that would call for the institution of single payer socialized medicine. That is what the “train wreck” was designed to do.
These commie DemonRATs are the Devil’s Servants.
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