Freedom Caucus endorses revised ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill

The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday announced it will back the GOP's healthcare plan now that an amendment allowing states to opt out of key ObamaCare rules is included.

The group of roughly 30 hard-line conservatives held out for weeks, scuttling a planned House vote on the bill last month after it became clear there was't enough Republican support to pass it.

The group said it sees the new amendment, brokered by Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and centrist Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), as the best option short of fully repealing the 2010 law.

"While the revised version still does not fully repeal Obamacare, we are prepared to support it to keep our promise to the American people to lower healthcare costs," the Freedom Caucus said in a statement.

"We look forward to working with our Senate colleagues to improve the bill. Our work will continue until we fully repeal Obamacare."

"Trump ran on “repeal AND replace”."

Given the remote possibility that you have not seen the following material concerning Obamacare and Trumpcare, you might find it interesting.

Noting that I gladly voted for Trump and do not regret doing so, please consider the following.

What I suspect that constitutionally low information Trump does not yet understand about Obamacare or the Trumpcare is this.

Regardless what lawless Obama’s state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, it remains that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for a national healthcare program. This is evidenced by the following excerpts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Supreme Court case opinions.

"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
“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.
"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.
”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 Trumpcare involves removing unconstitutional federal regulations dealing with INTRAstate commerce from the books, regulations that corrupt Congress not only can't justify under its Commerce Clause powers (1.8.3) but also make healthcare more expensive, then great!

But if Trumpcare requires new federal government powers beyond the scope of the Commerce Clause, then patriots need to support Trump in getting the states to ratify a Trumpcare amendment to the Constitution imo.

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