"Health Care Not In Constitution"

A good article at The Wall Street Journal. Our Constitution is what it is and no politicians can make us the people pretend to think that such a travesty as this "healthcare plan" can pass the test of being constitutional. We know it and you Mr. Politician know it as well.

The "living Constitution" that Democrats and their court appointees have given us may be the death of our freedoms. Their constitution adapts to the times and serves the whims of the elitists. The Constitution is supposed to limit government powers. It does not allow government to do anything it feels like doing.

Cass Sunstein, the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, is the author of "The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever."

He writes glowingly of how President Franklin Roosevelt, unsatisfied with the Constitution the Founding Fathers wrote, proposed a Second Bill of Rights in a speech on Jan. 11, 1944.

One of the new "rights" FDR envisioned was "the right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health." If health care were a right under the U.S. Constitution, FDR would not have had to propose it as one to be added.

Yet liberals believe it should be, and some believe it is. Feinstein, the senior senator from California, was asked Tuesday by CNSNews on what constitutional authority the Senate and House bills are authorized. She responded, as others have, "Well, I would assume it would be in the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. That's how Congress legislates all kinds of various programs."

Maybe so, but it's a power that has been grossly abused and distorted beyond all meaning. The Commerce Clause was intended for the regulation of economic activity across state lines that involves the production distribution or consumption of commodities. One does not go to a doctor to engage in commercial activity. (READ at WSJ)

Obama's Health Care Speech-"Nothing but Discredited Myths Recycled As The Truth"

Obama's latest Health care reform speech was nothing more than a rehash of old ideas that do not work. He is NOT an innovator - just a statist, a believer in old propaganda mythology. The worst myth is that a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington can solve problems that belong in the market place of a free enterprise system...and our system is called CAPITALISM - you know the one where millions of individual people make decisions based on thousands of different data points. Good ideas results in rewards; bad ideas results in rethinking and rebooting. Government is composed of people who do not have their money staked to their schemes and ideas so what do they care if it fails and millions of us suffer the consequences?

Reform: Millions of Americans finally got to hear the Democrats' pitch on health care reform, made by their top salesman. But they heard nothing new — just a lot of discredited myths recycled as the truth.

For the record, we support improving our health care system. As is, it has too many rules, too much government spending and too few market forces to keep costs low and quality high.
We spend north of $2 trillion every year on health care — 17% of our GDP, the most of any wealthy nation. If that sounds like a lot, remember this: An estimated 47% of that already is spent by the government. And government's share will grow even without "reform."

Look closely at the plans so far to emerge from Congress. What the Democrats have proposed, in essence, is a government takeover of nearly one-fifth of our nation's economy. When brought up in Congress, this idea has been rejected repeatedly. Yet, somehow, the idea never dies.

That's why the president's speech Wednesday night was a big disappointment.

Rather than a breakthrough that would remove government's stranglehold on a once-healthy market and move us toward true reform, we heard a lot of old bromides and myths — things we just can't let go uncorrected. Too much is at stake.

So following are 15 of the biggest misconceptions — and there are many more, we assure you — that we found in the speech: (READ AT IBD)

Org Chart of House Dem's Health Plan-A NIGHTMARE

Click on the title of this blog and it will take you America's Right website where you can enlarge this chart and see for youself how perverse, evil and unmanageable this government healthcare boondoggle will be.

A Tipping Point for Capitalism" via Government Healthcare

Are we, the American people being "bored into submission and indifference" regarding our relentless march to socialism by the constant prattle that government knows best how to cure what ails our economy? (Forget that it was Freddie Mac and Fannie May, birthed by the government, that started our descent into financial hell).

We have been "gliding" slowly but surely toward socialism over the past several decades but Obama and Washington are accelerating the pace. Contrary to what your politicians will say it is not Capitalism that has caused these problems it is your US of A government meddling in the market that has us all spiraling toward the abyss. If government takes over control of our health then we can kiss free America goodbye...we will be another socialist state like the Europeans.

For most of our nation's history, our approach to economics has favored enterprise, self-reliance and the free market. While the American economy has never been entirely laissez-faire, we have historically cared more about equality of opportunity than equality of results. And while Americans have embraced elements of the New Deal, the Great Society and progressive taxation, we have traditionally viewed welfare as a way to help those in dire need, not as a way of life for the middle class. We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity.

This outlook, once assumed, is now under attack due to a recent series of political and economic events.

The first is the unprecedented intervention by the federal government, in the form of a $700 billion relief package...

Nonetheless, the consequences of this undertaking are enormous. Not only has the size of the expenditures been staggering -- there is talk of another stimulus package worth an estimated $825 billion -- but we are witnessing a fundamental transformation of government's relationship with the polity and the economy (READ MORE at WSJ - Beware of Government Big Tipping Point).

Theodore Dalrymple has a great passage in one of his articles describing an "educationist'" who declared at a meeting about the harmful effects of forcing disadvantaged ethnic children to read and write.

• Why do I spend so much time arguing against such obvious rubbish, which should be both self-refuting and auto-satirizing the moment someone utters it? Why not just go and read a good book?
  
  The problem is that nonsense can and does go by default. It wins the argument by sheer persistence, by inexhaustible re-iteration, by staying at the meeting when everyone else has gone home, by monomania, by boring people into submission and indifference. And the reward of monomania? Power. (READ here).

YES INDEED, REMEMBER THAT WHAT MOST OF THESE POLITICIANS WANT MOST IS POWER - how better to get it than to turn us toward socialism, where all are dependent on the government for every need and every want. Yea! Power to the government!

"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."

P. J. O'Rourke

More and more people are starting to understand what socialized medicine would mean if Hillary and her ilk get their way. Paul Hsieh has a good article at http://www.aynrand.org/ where he describes what the Canadian health care system really is like and how people are starting to understand that they commited a big mistake by allowing the government to control their healthcare dollars.

"To guarantee "free" health care, a government must force the individual to pay for everyone else's medical care and limit his freedom to pay voluntarily for his own. With bureaucrats deciding who receives what, the individual is therefore forbidden from spending his money according to his own rational judgment (and the advice of his doctors) as to what's best for his health. When a government forces people to act against their own interests, it's no surprise that the results are misery and death."

"Fortunately, Canadians are starting to recognize the problems inherent in "single-payer" health care and are taking very small steps towards limited private medicine. America must not repeat Canada's mistakes." (READ)