• Because Congress can compel Americans to engage in commerce in order to then regulate their activities under the Commerce Clause.
• Because the fee that every American must pay -- by dint of their mere existence -- for failing to comply with "the Individual Mandate" is either a "tax" or a "penalty", depending on which day of the week it is.
• Because health care is a unique market, one in which every American must participate at some point in their lives. Unlike the markets of, say, clothing, shelter, food, transportation, ...• Because Congress has the right -- the obligation -- to trump God and the First Amendment in order to ensure that all Americans get free contraceptives and abortifacients.
• Because the "Consent of the Governed" is outdated and antiquated. Congress can do anything it wants, even if 63% of all Americans are opposed to their actions.
• Because a 2,200-page bill that not one member of Congress read -- much less understands -- is inherently Constitutional, as the noted legal scholar Nancy Pelosi insists.
• Because what could be more American than nationalizing one-sixth of the entire economy?
• Because a few masterminds in Washington will be able to manage that one-sixth of the economy more effectively than the entire private sector.
• Because government-run health care has turned out to be cost-effective, innovative, and efficient in delivering health care, except in countries like England, Canada and Sweden.
• Because every founder of this country -- every single Framer of the Constitution from James Madison to George Mason -- would agree with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. That is, all Americans have the right to free health care, which must be delivered by a 15-member panel of elite masterminds overseeing an authoritarian, centralized, massive federal bureaucracy.

6 comments:
The liberals will find justifications in “penumbras” and “emanations.”
Oh damn! I was drinking a coke when I started reading this incredible screed and initially I came close to hurly coke through my nose onto the screen & keyboard...
Dougster, how about a warning next time?!?!
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The 2,200 page statute will spawn thousands regulations, all written (very poorly, I might add) by unelected bureaucrats.
I never see mention of people that handle their medical bills the old fashion way. They pay them with their own money. Why should they have to pay a fine (penalty, tax ??)for not having insurance.
A quibble: it's not a take over of 1/6th of the economy. it's government taking over the rest of healthcare. Employer funded insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, government run VA services all distort the free market.
And I agree with Jim - PRS: this is like the EPA or Department of Energy: it's not the vague 2,200 law that will cause the most damage: it is the cancerous number of agencies and regulations that will grow out of it.
-Jason
Oh, Doug. There's no such thing as the "individual mandate". Don't you know they've rebranded to "personal responsibility clause"?
That sounds nicer, doesn't it?
(gak)
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