Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,Floyd Reports
When Missouri voters attempted to stop ObamaCare at the ballot box via the initiative process,the national news media took notice. In the August 3 vote,7 in 10 voters in the “Show Me State”supported Proposition C,which overturns government mandates requiring health insurance. Proposition C actually bars penalties against people who pay their own health bills without insurance.
On August 2,U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled against a U.S. Justice Department request to throw out a lawsuit brought by Virginia against ObamaCare. Virginia is arguing in the lawsuit that the U.S. Congress had unconstitutionally exceeded its powers by forcing individuals to buy insurance.
Hudson wrote,“While this case raises a host of complex constitutional issues,all seem to distill to the single question of whether or not Congress has the power to regulate —and tax —a citizen’s decision not to participate in interstate commerce…”
Hudson continues by saying there is,“some authority arguably supporting the theory underlying each side’s position.”Hudson’s decision sets up the opportunity to have appellate and eventually the Supreme Court decide these issues.
But our personal favorite of the many lawsuits challenging ObamaCare is from Arizona. Yes,the land of immigration enforcement could also be the site of a major constitutional battle about ObamaCare. The citizens of Arizona are restless with their Washington,D.C. overseers.
The Goldwater Institute,a public policy outfit named for Arizona’s most famous son,is taking a different swing at the question.
Representing a local business owner,Nick Coons of Tempe,Ariz.,the Goldwater Institute has built an intriguing legal strategy which will shake up the debate:“Mr. Coons pays for all of his medical care out of his own pocket and he wants to continue making his own health care decisions. Under the federal health care bill,Mr. Coons will face significant fines from the IRS if he doesn’t buy a health insurance plan that has been approved by the government by 2014.”
In announcing the lawsuit Coons complained,“The government is making me spend money on something that I don’t want. Is a stranger who works for the government in some other part of the country really going to know what I need? I am the best qualified to make these decisions for myself.”
The Goldwater Institute’s lawyer is well-known constitutional litigator Clint Bolick. Bolick argues,“The new federal law also violates Mr. Coons’ medical privacy by forcing him to disclose his medical records to an insurance company,and those records could be accessed by the federal government and others without his permission.”
We have always been disturbed by the arrogance of government officials that seem to believe they have a right to know the most intimate details of your discussions with your doctor. ObamaCare will violate the sanctity and privacy of the relationship you have with your physician.
The framers of the U.S. Constitution would be shocked by the manipulation we have recently experienced at the hands of Congress,Obama,and out-of-control federal judges. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli sums it all up when he said of ObamaCare’s attempts to regulate the behavior of doing nothing: “Even the king and the parliament acknowledged they didn’t have this power back before the Declaration of Independence.”
I am a retiree paying for Medicare and AARP Healthcare nsurance,and I would gladly join Mr. Coons suit against Obamacare by dropping my insurances,and absorbing my medical bills out of my own pocket. Obama is a loose cannon with an arrogant approach to governing. He obviously is instilled with the philosophy of governing with dictatorial powers given to him by his political hacks who continue to ignore the majority desires of our country. I hope I see him defeated and become an extinct species before I leave this good earth.
I wonder if sending them a copy of my Obituary would cause them to cease and desist intruding themselves into my life.
I believe the Constitution says that trade between should be "regular". This was meant to made trade between states to be fair in all aspects. It was not meant to give the federal government to REGULATE it as seems to be what the federal government now does or often tries to do. One instance that comes to mind is a recent effort to control the sale of guns made in Montana. But Obama and his democrat majority Congress have littlle regard for the greatest document ever written by man.
The case the government filed against Arizona because of its illegal immigration should be annulled. It was filed in a federal appeal court. The constitution clearly states that if the case involves a state the Supreme Court
"shall have original jurisdiction". And Obama says he taught Constitutioal law. I guess he forgot what was written in Article III section. 2.
obama is out to DESTROY our way of life,a little here,and a little there….and one day we will awake and find a new king that will rule with a iron fist? AMERICA wake up before its too late..GOD HAVE MERCY ON ''WE THE PEOPLE''
what part of the constituion says ''government health care? i do know that the government is to protect the U.S.A. with 20 million illegals living off the citizens,sure don't look like he's PROTECTING THE BOARDER…..
Why don't you come right out and say you won't post it ? after my having printed 2 messages. This is a farce!
Marianne,what is it that the forum isn't posting?
Please keep trying…it can't be as bad
as some of the posts that are allowed on here.
(not naming any names,but you probably
know to whom I refer)
I would like to know what you are
attempting to say…
Don't let the bad guys win.
A man who has nothing to hide,hides nothing.
It is very unfitting for a president to play fast and loose with something as important as this. He has absolutely no respect for the will of the people or he would have presented the Birth Certificate long ago. His playing childish "cat and mouse"games with all of us shows not only no respect,but no guts to set the whole thing to rest. If he is this childish,who needs a president like this?
It is not that he is being childish with his
secrecy concering all past records.
He is being deliberately obtuse
because he was placed in this position
through various underlying powers
behind the scenes. There is an
article written by a man who learned
first-hand from a woman in Russia,
that Obama .. a black man…she called him,
was being groomed in the 1990's,to
take over leadership in the U.S. and
to bring America down.
Mission accomplished,partly.
He still has to bring America to
its knees,and from what I read
here and elsewhere,he has a
fight ahead of him.
It is due to the corruption in the
D.C. government that he has not
been thrown out into a federal
penetentiary by now.
There is corruption in the
SCOTUS and the branches
of government.. and they are
running wild with power and
the feeling of invulnerability.
Nancy Pelosi is the original
witch of the west.. she needs to
be put into an insane asylum and
the key thrown into the Potomac.
I don't know who is worse.. her or
Obama. They both are evil and
power-driven…She is just plain
stupid and he is motive-driven.
You can tell that I really,really
respect this present administration
and all of its surrounding idiots.