Orrin Hatch: ObamaCare is Unconstitutional

[TheModelification]

Obamacare was signed on March 2010 with 59% of the people disapproving according to a CNN poll. The CBO scored Obamacare on six years of coverage for 10 years of taxes, which is how the CBO showed the bill to be deficit neutral . It’s unconstitutional mandating all citizens to purchase health care. Even Pelosi said, “We have to pass the bill, so you can find out what is in it.” watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To It’s also meant to take over industry watch?v=p-bY92mcOdk

Allen West 2012

[hyperseauton]

Oh please: Hatch is about the most evil politician I can think of.

Cato's a joke.

[032125]

@hyperseauton I think the folks at Cato have a healthy sense of humor and recognize the irony of Orrin Hatch giving this speech.

[TheAerialbomb]

Hatch is a clown

[gneissday]

I've seen reports that Hatch supported mandated health insurance back in the early '90's. Thus, his arguments may be factually correct, but he loses credibility to be the one making the arguments in this video. RINO?

[GaseousAnomaly001]

Our constitution is hundreds of years old. Meanings of words change. Specifically, in the Second Amendment, a "well-regulated militia" does not refer to training or discipline, it refers to their equipment. A "regular" is a soldier that is equipped for war, not trained for it. A trained, state-sponsored army would have been called a "standing army". We need Justices that are able to look past the words, and into the minds and intentions of the founding fathers when they wrote the Constitution.

[3martijns]

Sounds good, but regularly behaves as a RINO.

[hydin1]

When and how do we hold these criminal acts too account?

[trime1851]

Excellent!

[whoo689]

The problem, though, is with a typical Republican jackass like Orrin Hatch saying this. I'd rather Ron Paul give a speech like this to Cato. I don't think Hatch really epitomizes much of what Cato stands for, esp. on social and cultural issues. Or foreign policy. Sure, a lot of Republicans stood up for constitutionalism (albeit in a very crude sense, not a scholarly way) on the HC bill, but WHERE ELSE have they been constitutionalists? Certainly not when it comes to the Iraq War!

[whoo689]

@whoo689 Limited constitutionalism, the kind that most Republicans in Congress (and probably nationwide) use, is NOT true constitutionalism. It's merely another way of saying "conservative judicial activism." They interpret the Constitution for their partisan ends, and the Left does the same.

[scott01019]

I like what Hatch had to say here. However this makes Hatch look like a hypocrite as he continuously votes in favor of restricting access to abortion through federal laws, which is not a power granted to Congress by the Constitution.

[SpamSpamNEggs]

There is so little that the government does that is actually constitutional that the health care bill is just a drop in the bucket.

Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, The National Guard, The Air force, current funding for armies, department of education, The AMA, The FDA the EPA are all unconstitutional. Many directly violate the written words of the document, not just abusing powers that the constitution does not grant. I will start believing "Conservatives" When they condemn the Air Force

[alexmigda]

The constitution doesn't tell us exactly what to do in every situation. He isn't even making any clear arguments about health care.

[sperckensiedoitch]

I'm confused. Is he also saying that the reason the bill is unconstitutional is because it violates some portion of the constitution dealing with government intervention in the private sector? If a particular portion of the constitution is being referenced, and there is a demonstrable link between the healthcare bill and violation of that portion, then the bill is unconstitutional and should be revisited.

[sperckensiedoitch]

hooray!

[getnick77]

@JangosLegacy22 the reason the dems were in a hurry was because they knew they were gonna lose a bunch of seats in November

[getnick77]

I agree we should also get rid of the CFR and make our legislators amend the constitution instead of constantly just making laws and regulations willy nilly

[yougiberishtube]

thumbs up

[dantheleo]

It's about time someone is talking about those unamerican members of Congress and Senators that turned their backs on there oath and voted for this unconstitutional bill. Thankfully we have the mid-term elections coming up and can vote almost all of them out of office. All but the cowards that have chosen not to run again knowing they were finished anyway to avoid the humiliation.

[pemallard6]

unconstitutional ask Van Irion

[pigmydmm]

Oh yes Obamacare is unconstitutional Obama is unqualified Obama as president is unconstitutional Impeach Obama!

[f01863]

Obamacare is unconstitutional,well that's okay,so is obama.

[aerobique]

and now they fight against healthcare? LOL?

[aerobique]

are people so extremely stupid?,.. specially this so called republicans are nothing but obvious selfish lobbyists abusing populism, fear and lies

they cant representative of a democracy LOL while work for the industry at the first place... damn, they just fool the people, very very easy...

im from germany and have no idea who he is and what its about / i watched one minute on wiki and all my instant/predictions on him came true ..and much more

and you all blame obama, is this a joke?

[darkr0astedblend]

@aerobique Dude... Learn history. Europe copied the American economical model to enrich. US didn't have a health care problem until government started intervening in the 1920s-30s.

Since you're talking about lobbies... Read on how this bill was passed. There is a lot of money and executive positions being given to buy votes.

Also, take a look at Greece and it's public expending. Too much government and no economy resists. Being a German, you should value the free market, not monopolism.

[jaddaway]

@aerobique this is a Republic

[strongbadXCP]

@aerobique Obama is the worst president in US history and his "healthcare" is blatantly unconstitutional. Obviously you have not learned from your own history what giving power to the government results in.

[whoo689]

@strongbadXCP I don't know about him being the "worst" president in history. I don't think you're putting everything in context. Is he REALLY any worse than Bush, as bad as that jackass was? Bush had 2 disastrous wars, fearmongering all the time about terrorism, the Patriot Act, Military Commissions Act, torture, massive deficit spending and so much more. Hell, he passed the first $700 Billion bailout! I don't like Barack, but I'd still take him over Bush any day.

[strongbadXCP]

He is the same as Bush, only with more spending, less common sense, and less loyalty to the US.

[strongbadXCP]

@whoo689 In other words, all those Acts and wars you don't like Bush for, Obama has continued - and on top of that all the nonsense healthcare business.

[jaddaway]

@aerobique and you may want to mind your fucking self Germany is about to bailout fools so fuck off

[QUESTED]

@aerobique The United States is not under a democracy....

liberals are dumb as small minded as hell

that's why they started the KKK

[waylo4526]

how can anyone be stupid enough to pass this idiotic bill its not going to work!!!

[sdfkjllshadflhadfshl]

The U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce

Yet we can't buy insurance across state lines so by definition its not interstate commerce.

[jaddaway]

@sdfkjllshadflhadfshl insurance raises the cost of healthcare

[whoo689]

@jaddaway I don't follow you. Are you arguing from a libertarian standpoint or the typical liberal BS about "conspiratorial insurance executives screwing us over"? Believe me, they have NO incentive or reason to do that. Insurance is so costly mainly BECAUSE of all the excessive mandates and regulations state bureaucrats adn politicians place on it. BECAUSE it's not open to national competition. Insurance only "makes HC costlier" insofar as little copay presents a moral hazard.

[whoo689]

@jaddaway this in turn allows patients to get the most expensive treatments and most expensive doctors they can find, when they could've probably shopped around in advance and saved so much money. That in turn just ends up raising everyone else's costs. What incentive do providers have to really lower costs and compete if someone else is paying for you?

[Winterfairy777]

...problem is iff u have a judge that doesn`t give a damn.....there goes history and all good. welcome to oabam nation.

[1king4ever]

@Winterfairy777 Judges have started all this "political correctness" Allowing greed & foolishness into the system. (example a high award for a woman who sued McDonalds for hot coffee being spilled on her) crap cases.... Our whole government has been damaged years ago. Obummer is what you get when you have a collection of stupid people wanting change... Well you got it... agggghhhh!!! Now the gov can just about say how much TP to use! (you got me started again!!)

[Winterfairy777]

@1king4ever the change they have now lol what i do not get is that so many people are still for Obamanero. I never understand how u can vote for that wimp in the first place. that guy has a mental problem if u ask me.or lets say a very evil spirit.