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 by
the government.
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 direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th
Amendment to the Constitution information, your personal financial
information, and the information of your employer, physician, and
hospital. All of this is a 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 3rd and 4th
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 5th 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 9th 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 10th 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, the US Constitution, and
Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have
taken from us.
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