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To: sickoflibs
The way you cut my quote indicates you anly see half sentences.

No, you advocated something that was illegal, and I called you on it. You justified your illegal proposal based on the consequences of something else that was illegal. Rather than correct the illegal behavior, you simply built upon it. You are an example of the reason why the government is dysfunctional.

Given that congress and president mandates emergency rooms treat patients

They have no legal power to do that.

AND that no elected ‘conservative’ has ever proposed eliminating this requirement

Irrelevant.

it only makes sense that you be forced to have coverage to protect the hospital from YOU walking in there getting free treatment.

No, it doesn't make sense. It is simply an example of extending the crime into another crime.

Beck did a story of homeless walking into emergency room daily at 2K per for free meals. Now given that THAT was ruled constitutional

Unlikely.

in fact how does MA get away with their mandate.

A variety of things are legal at the state level but not at the Federal level. That's the whole point behind Federalism, and the basis of US government.

Just because Levin claims something is un-constitutional doesnt make all laws he doesnt like go away.

It is unconstitutional not because someone says it is, but simply because it is from a clear reading of the Constitution itself. The powers granted to the Federal government are enumerated in Article 1, Section 8. Spending money on health care is not among them.

104 posted on 07/17/2009 1:13:58 PM PDT by Technogeeb (The only good Russian is a dead Russian. Rest in Peace, Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Technogeeb

So was a ban on partial birth abortions, and Bush vs Gore, so what? Completely irrelevent at this point.


105 posted on 07/17/2009 1:16:52 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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To: Technogeeb
What you are saying is that because of some idealistic sense of Levin type constitutional theory never to be the law again that hospitals (and us) must be raped by the uninsured forever, and we must give Obama that as an argument for free abortions (claiming emergency room costs).

Problem is, conservatives want so called unconstitution decisions, ever hear Levin rail against the federal partial birth abortion law??

111 posted on 07/17/2009 1:53:34 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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