Exclusive— Rick Santorum Crafting Different Obamacare Repeal Plan with Lawmakers: ‘It Will Pass (tr)

Breitbart ^ | August 22, 2017 | MATTHEW BOYLE & SEAN MORAN

[plain talk]

It sounds like moving healthcare from the federal government to the States would essentially get rid of ObamaCare at the federal level. Then the blue states implement their version of ObamaCare or single payer.

Unless I am missing something this sounds promising. Getting the votes is another matter.

[Qwackertoo]

It probably STINKS ON ICE and just WHY ( is it even legal ? ) for a FORMER office holder, but now just a CITIZEN, to craft and submit a Bill, to Congress?

You’re the one who questioned “is it even legal”.

Whatever. Carry on.

[Amendment10]

"It would allow [??? emphasis added] each of the 50 states to individually craft their own plans,"

Allow ???

While Mr. Santorum’s heart may be in the right place concerning INTRAstate healthcare, it remains that the states uniquely retained government power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate healthcare as evidenced by the 10th Amendment.

In other words, unless the states expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt feds the specific power to legislatively address intrastate healthcare issues, it remains that the feds have no voice in such issues; the feds cannot allow or disallow intrastate healthcare.

[gspurlock]

Yes. Anyone can craft and submit a bill to Congress. I think that is what “self government” is all about.

[Busko]

In Pennsylvania all That Casey had to do is win Philly and the Pittsburg area and he won!

[sphinx]

Presidents routinely prepare administration drafts of proposed legislation. They typically work closely with allies in Congress to work out compromises and accommodations in advance. Some helpful member will then introduce the draft on behalf of the administration. I’m not aware that Trump has bothered with any of this on any of his “priorities.” He blurts out a thought on Twitter and waits for Congress to do something. Then he lambastes Congress for not getting it done. His criticism seems usually to be tougher on the allies who actually tried to move his agenda than on the opponents who defeated it.

[CincyRichieRich]

Everyone in the United States will wear a therapeutic sweater vest?
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Goes to show how amazing we Freepers are...i was gonna post something similar...Touche.

[Brian Griffin]

“An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen was passed by the 5th Congress. It was signed by President John Adams on July 16, 1798. The Act authorized the deduction of twenty cents per month from the wages of seamen, for the sole purpose of funding medical care for sick and disabled seamen, as well as building additional hospitals for the treatment of seamen.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_relief_of_sick_and_disabled_seamen

[itsahoot]

No president crafts a BILL; did you miss that bit, when you were at school?

I guess you missed that part about congressmen never writing bills lobbyists do. Ryan's repeal and replace bill was never seen by any congressman until the lobbyists revealed it to them.

Anyone can offer advice or lobby congress and if you pay enough they might actually listen to you.

[upchuck]

Everything was going along as expected, which wasn't much, until I came across this sentence:

Santorum has been working with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) among others...

I feel very confident in stating that that any bill worked on by linda will have the full approval of the lobbyists. They own linda.

[Amendment10]

An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen

Thank you for referencing that legislation Brian Griffin.

Note that Thomas Jefferson had indicated that, in his time, the total tax revenues for running the federal government were from taxes on imported goods.

“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.

Complimenting the fact that federal revenues were based entirely on taxes on imported goods is the fact the Constitution's Clause 17 of Section 8 of Article I shows that the states authorized the feds to own and regulate dock-yards.

Article I, Section8, Clause 17: To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, byCession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards [emphases added], and other needful Buildings;--And

So given Congress's clause 17 powers, it's not surprising that Congress mandated that a percentage of the wages of seamen who probably handled imported goods was used to buy health insurance for the seamen.

As a side note to federal dock-yards in the context of import taxes, consider that Congress passed the Congressional Relief Act of 1803. This relief act extended the tax deadline for merchants in Portsmouth, New Hampshire who were recovering from a fire.

National Response Plan

But more importantly regarding the constitutionality of Obamacare, regardless what lawless Obama's state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices want everybody to think about Obamacare, consider this. The Roberts Court seems to have ignored that previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate healthcare purposes.

Regarding the Roberts justices bluffing that the Obamacare insurance mandate is constitutional for example, consider the fourth entry in the list from Paul v. Virginia. In that case the Court had clarified that the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers does not include regulating contracts, including insurance contracts, regardless if the parties negotiating the contract 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 [emphasis 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 [emphases 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

• "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.

• "The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me