Posted on 01/15/2017 6:37:46 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WARREN, Michigan — Sen. Bernie Sanders, while acknowledging that some Americans "don't like" the health care law and continuing to call for universal coverage, pledged before a crowd of thousands to fight Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
"There are differences of opinion about the Affordable Care Act — some like it, some don't like it. But very few Americans believe that we should repeal the ACA without a replacement program to make it better," Sanders, I-Vermont, said at a rally Sunday, one of several dozen gatherings across the country aimed at ginning up public support for the health care law.
"Know we are saying to our Republican colleagues: We will not allow you to throw up to 30 million Americans off of health insurance," he said.
Sanders appeared alongside Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, both of Michigan's Democratic senators and a handful of the state's House members, as well as a number of progressive activists. According to Sanders, Democrats organized 70 rallies Sunday from Maine to California as part of their campaign to defend the law against Republican efforts to dismantle it.
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Two old men slinging about the contents of their depends...
Never go into a gunfight without a gun.
I still wish the GOP would let the ObamaCare fiasco collapse under its own weight and then demand that the ‘RATS fix it. JMO.
The government has no right to operate a business.
Sanders and Chucky Schumer are relics. There’s no place for them in this century.
I read Trump has a replacement ready.
We should pass it to find out what’s in it.
Doesn’t total fraud Bernie Sanders have anything else better to do than protest, maybe spend a nice evening at that new vacation home of his..ya know, the ones that the Clintons bought him so he would roll over and play dead during the primaries
” We will not allow you to throw up to 30 million Americans off of health insurance,” he said...”
No, moron. You are going to be made to pull the gun AWAY from taxpayers’ heads each April for NOT having it. Feces for brains.
Looks like Head Clown and Old Clown are teaming up for the circus.
The only people who love Commiecare are illegal aliens and those who don’t have to pay a dime for it, meanwhile we all have to pay for them to get their freebies
“The more “journalists” on a story, the more lies it contains.”
Three idiots to write this drek. Any rally, anywhere, anytime that involves a Democrat must be covered, “pledges” “vows” and all their sacred stuff they say. Don’t you remember how they covered us after Obama was elected?
Those on the welfare plantation must be kept dependant for if they should have a small taste of independence through owning their own health insurance then they might come to crave real freedom.
We bought our own insurance before it was passed and so we have seen the “before and after” of the ACA and it isn't pretty. The biggest frustration is for us to be forced to buy expensive crappy insurance — crappy = astronomical high deductibles, and very expensive. This plans covered under the ACA were at one time referred to “catastrophic” and are now the new socialized medicine low, bottom of the barrel, standard established by our friends the Democrats.
Ya, it may be wonderful if you get it free. Actually, it would be bothersome to us if we were getting it free because nothing is ever free.
For those that don’t know Warren is a UAW Cesspool whose mayor was just caught hot mic’ed saying in effect “tonight l’ve got retard night” because had was having a photo op with some mentally challenged kids that evening. My whole life I have always hated spending even 1 minute in Warren.
I’ll bet when Obama care started 30 million or so already insured people lost their insurance, then had little choice but to go on Ocare or pay penalty.
Schumer and Sanders cannot fight for Obamacare for the following explanation.
Regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, a previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific powers to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.
Regarding the constitutionality of the Obamacare insurance mandate for example, note the fourth entry in the list below from Paul v. Virginia. In that case, justices had clarified that regulating insurance is not within the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), regardless if the parties negotiating the insurance policy are domiciled in different states.
"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.
"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.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description [emphasis added], as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." -Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln., 1837.
"4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphasis added] of indemnity against loss." - Paul v. Virginia, 1869. (The corrupt feds have no Commerce Clause (1.8.3) power to regulate insurance.)
"Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously [emphases added] beyond the power of Congress." - Linder v. United States, 1925.
"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.
So if Trump cannot work Trumpcare within Congress’s very limited Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3), then Trump must lead Congress and the states to propose a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution to the states which will give the feds the new constitutional powers that it needs to establish Trumpcare.
Note that the states are not obligated to ratify any proposed amendment to the Constitution. In fact, the states are free to start their own healthcare programs, depending on what the legal majority voters of a given state want.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
keep talking, bernie.
Yeah, it was on Drudge. The replacement is called REPEAL.
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