The Truth About the Health Care Bills

email | 10/5/2013 | Michael Connelly

[IbJensen]

Snopes says this is correctly attributed…

Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200:

The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009.

I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.

To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.

The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.

However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.

The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.

This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, in direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution, of all of your personal healthcare information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.

If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However , that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though.

The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.

I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.

For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us. ----------------------------------------------

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton , Texas

[IbJensen]

The only control we have left is our vote that should be used to remove anyone from office who votes for this abominable piece of legislation. As a 77 year old American, and all others my age or older, most diagnosed serious diseases we might face that were previously treatable, under this law would be a death sentence. We are too old to treat, too old to save.

This legislation is an attempt to control the voting demographic that transfers the weight of the popular vote, over time, to an administration that favors socialism tainted by liberal giveaways that reward people whose top goal in life is to simply be adequately average..

Our government is a failure! Our Constitution has been used for toilet paper by an evil community agitator and his mentally challenged socialists.

[lilypad]

I just tried to call Fl. Senator Bill Nelson Democrat. He has an answering machine recording blaming a few right wing extremists for the shout down blah blah and he doesn’t have any staff to answer the phone because of it.

[IbJensen]

Nelson is a waste of space. Florida is poorly served by this jackass and now the realization sinks in that Rubio isn’t all he’s cracked up to be.

[Leaning Right]

According to Snopes, the bill referenced in the post, House Bill 3200, was never passed.

[freekitty]

I hope this guy is currently reading the thousand of pages they have added.

[IbJensen]

Where, exactly, is the bill languishing now?

[Leaning Right]

Where, exactly, is the bill languishing now?

House Bill 3200 was proposed, but Congress never voted on it.

Congress eventually passed another bill, H.R. 3590, which is the Affordable Care Act.

I don't know how different H.R. 3200 is from H.R. 3590, but they are not the same thing.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/connelly.asp

http://www.hslda.org/Legislation/National/2009/H.R.3200/default.asp

[fabian]

Time for another good rebellion soon....

[RedMDer]

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[smokingfrog]

The Senate originated ObamaCare by “amending” House Resolution (H.R.) 3590, titled the Service Members Home Ownership Tax Act of 2009. H.R. 3590 didn’t regulate health insurance, and this bill granted tax credits to service members seeking their first homes and increased corporate estimated taxes for certain companies by 0.5%. It’s unclear why the Senate picked H.R. 3590 to “amend” over other possible House bills. But surely one reason was because H.R. 3590, which would increase corporate estimated taxes, was a House bill for raising revenue.

[smokingfrog]

There are 7 versions of Bill Number H.R.3590 for the 111th Congress. Usually, the last item is the most recent.

[ntnychik]

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[potlatch]

Thanks nit. Unbelievable, but it's the ‘Chicago way’ and the longer it goes on the worse it makes him look. Wonder if Obama got to play golf today?