If you want to know what this country is in for, I would suggest that you(figuratively) get busy and do some REAL research into this monstrosity of a bill. Yes it is long and very involved. Yes it is changing every day, but the core of the bill is the same. Once you see SOME of the aspects of it you SHOULD get in touch with your congressman and voice your opinion.
Honestly, I can't see how anyone would be for this bill. The Republicans have written what I think is a better alternative in HB 3400. It address the problem and has some solutions in it, and it isn't 2000 pages long. Yes we have problems, and yes we need to address them, but not with the giveaways that are in this bill. Every group that has or is supporting the Democratic Party is getting something with this bill, and you and I are going to pay for it. I will leave it up to you to look it up. Some of it is obscene and much of it, I consider, is unconstitutional.
I will give you some information about the bill that ought to scare the pants off of you. It is far worse than the giveaways.
I recieved an email with an article written by
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas
This is a real person and his web site is:
Home - Connelly
On his home page he outlines 9 points as to why this is a bad bill and what you need to let your representative know about them.
As to his article here it is and there are numerous references on the internet. This is the web page for his original piece.
The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Connelly
I am including the article. I would suggest that you read ALL of the questions and answers if you want a REAL education. You will find out that you can't just undo this with the next administration, nor can you rely on the Supreme Court. The blog started on August 12 2009 and its last post was #239 on Jan. 16. There is some REAL information in these comments. Some of the up to the minute comments address the real problems with the bill as we know it today. #225, 229, 232, but I think #234 sums it up best.
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.
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 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 direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4<sup>th</sup> Amendment to the Constitution 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 3<sup>rd</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> 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 5<sup>th</sup> 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 9<sup>th</sup> 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 10<sup>th</sup> 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. Here is a link to the Constitution:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas
[email protected]
Craig Lummus August 22, 2009Hello, Michael. Thanks for your time to read through the entire bill and for your comments and analyzations. I do have a question in regards to the possible passing of the health care reform legislation that I have yet to hear anyone address: Should Congress pass this piece of legislation, couldn't another Congress come in behind them and undo the legislation? To put it simply, if Congress passes this, can't Congress undo it? What would it take? Will the Supreme Court ultimately be called upon to hear whether or not this legislation is unconstitutional? One more question: since an individual has to have permission from the federal government to sue the federal government, how will that work with governmnet run health care? Will patients be able to sue these doctors for what will be most likely crappy practice since most of the exceptional and competent doctors will have most likely left or chosen not to enter the profession after this fiasco passes? Thank you very much.
Hi Craig:
Thanks you for your comments and I will try to answer your questions. Unfortunately our Congress has a very poor record when it comes to reversing previous legislation, no matter how bad it is. Only during the years of the Reagan Administration and for a few years thereafter did Congress take steps to reverse the disasters of things like the Welfare system. In the case of the current health care proposals this could be very difficult. If Congress and the Obama administration succeed in destroying the private system of health care and insurance, which is clearly their goal, it may be virtually impossible to restore after a few years have passed. Doctors will have stopped practicing and private insurance companies will have shut down. This is precisely the situation that has occurred in Great Britain and Canada.
The government will be in control of everything relating to health care and you will only be allowed to see the doctors that the government approves. As for the Supreme Court, I don't trust them to save us. When the Obama administration decided to take control of General Motors and void private contacts in favor of giving labor unions the benefits of helping to run the company the U.S. Supreme Court refused to intervene, despite the fact that this was clearly unconstitutional. I no longer trust the court to rescue us. We must do it ourselves by keeping this legislation from ever passing. I hope this answers your questions.
Please look at this. It is too important not to.