Health Care Debate - Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

David Schuster displaying his usual contempt for the Constitution. It IS unConstitutional for the Federal Government to be involved in health care.

Article I Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession 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, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

9th Amendment: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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• Health care
• socialized medicine
• socialism

[LexNaturalis1982]

@ipxzor Oh, and they can regulare interstate, not intrastate, commerce, and they cannot force you to ENGAGE in commerce.

[mikebri527]

To all those who believe a govn't run healthcare system would be better than a private one I ask this question: If it's the PEOPLE who run the private health insurance companies that you don't believe in, then why do you believe in the PEOPLE that would run a govn't healthcare system? You can't tell me there's any difference. If you're greedy and corrupt in the private sector then you're going to be just as greedy and corrupt in the public sector, maybe even more so.

[samspennell]

Fuck you

[ipxzor]

"general welfare of the United States"

There is you "in" to get into health care. Also

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises"

Thus you have the funding and the legal right to tax and to implement it for the general welfare of Americans.

Lastly as bling said "regulate commerce" means that the federal government can regulate ANY industry including health care.

Same reasoning is used in Australia who's constitution is modeled on the US one.

[blingbling65943]

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

what do you think this part of constitution means?

[Claronium780]

misinformation on BOTH sides? NOT AT ALL, ACTUALLY !!!! Only from idiot fucking Conservatives !!!