| The Kennedy Socialized Medicine Triple Whammy |
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| Written by Justin Williams |
| Tuesday, 09 June 2009 15:15 |
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In this book, Orwell depicts various insidious instances when Big Government engages in what is called “newspeak.” “Newspeak,” of course, is when the words of a language are distorted to fit a totalitarian regime’s plan to restrict liberty. There is little doubt that when Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy’s people sat down to draft this bill, they took great pride in elevating “newspeak” from cliché to archetype. Doubtlessly laughing up their sleeves all the while, they named the bill that restricts and coerces millions of Americans the “American Choices Health Act.” This bill, of course, neither improves American’s health, nor their choices in health care. And that, truly, is a socialist double whammy. Somehow by giving up their freedom of choice, Americans are supposed to save a heavily overburdened welfare state that already operates dangerously in the red. It is being reported that in the next 10 days, the White House will release how this plan will knock off $200 to $300 billion in Medicare. At the same time, we are informed, people will be lining up to get a taste of this new “free” health care. In economics, it is said “incentives matter.” And when it comes to health care costs and benefits, incentives often matter most. When the average American is deciding whether to take health care or not, they are weighing the benefits and costs. This is no different than buying milk at the grocery store. Now that the cost is being subsidized to those who are 500 percent above the poverty line, they will be more apt to try and collect their newly distributed benefits. For America this means longer wait lines for doctors and for surgery, along with radically increased costs to an already overbloated Big Government. But conveniently for them, Kennedy and Reid left out any and all of the accounting costs in the bill. Though, a previous low estimate was in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 trillion over the next 10 years. But wait, as the TV infomercial hipsters shout, there’s even more! Just when it couldn’t seem to get any worse, Kennedy and Dodd are proposing yet another new bill that will only clog the major healthcare arteries even more. It is called “The Healthy Families Act.” This bill forces businesses to pay sick leave to all employees--in the name of preventing the swine flu (as well as any other ailment that happen to take an employee’s fancy.) To prevent abuse of this, employees will have to document their illness, and that, of course, means even more mandatory--and costly--trips to the doctor. Naturally, there will be more than enough people who will volunteer to spend the day reading magazines and waiting for the doctor (or at least they claim they are) then going to work and being a productive member of society. How can we be so sore? Check out the local welfare and unemployment offices. Which means the entire health care hoax has now become the true socialist triple whammy. Kennedy, Pelosi, and Obama are not only incentivizing people to overburden the doctor’s offices, but also now they are even paying those who do work to take more time off and spend it in the waiting room. All the while, bringing the U.S. closer and closer to becoming a kissing cousin to the many unsustainable welfare states of Europe. Justin Williams is a Contributing Editor of ALG News Bureau.
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| Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 June 2009 15:01 |
Over the weekend the Kennedy health care bill--aimed at inserting government into the nooks and crannies of every doctor’s office and operating room--was leaked to the press. Not so coincidently, this enormous growth of government comes as Americans celebrate the 60th anniversary of George Orwell’s book 1984.
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But more importantly, not only is health care a state power issue under the federal Constitution, but Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits federal government power to lay taxes.
So not only is misguided Kennedy's proposed health care spending constitutionally unauthorized, but the feds never had the power to lay taxes for health care in the first place; same problems with Obama's worthless stimulus package that we paid so much for. So given Justice Marshall's words, such federal spending programs amount to the corrupt feds returning money to the states that the feds have stolen from the states anyway.
The bottom line is that the voters need to wise up to the ongoing, illegal usurpation of state powers by the Constitution-ignoring feds and put the constitutional leash back on the federal government by doing the following. Voters need to elect pro-state power people to the state governments in 2010 who will do the following. State leaders need to use their power to amend the Constitution to repeal the ill-conceived 16th and 17th Amendments, amendments which have not only weakened state sovereignty, but are also the source of power, in my opinion, for the corrupt Democratic Party now running the country. The 16th A. especially has to go because direct taxation has made it too easy for the corrupt feds to lay constitutionally unauthorized taxes, taxes which pay for things like Obama's illegal stimulus package and Kennedy's proposed illegal health care plan.
And once the 16th A. has been repealed and the federal income tax eliminated, the states can finance the federal government with higher state taxes for the following reason. The states can use their greater constitutional powers to serve the people to fight a downhill battle with the feds, eliminating constitutionally unauthorized federal taxes, keeping as many tax dollars in a given state as possible. (Did you hear that California?)
And when a state lawmaker shows the voters that they are more interested in protecting the welfare of the federal government than that of their own state then they can look for a new job.