The Truth About The Health Care Bill:
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By Michael
Connelly,
Retired
Constitutional Attorney
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 (Yea, I know, but if you think an Executive
Order barring federal funding for abortive “medicine” will last longer than the next democratic
party president, YOU
In my opinion, 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.
However, as scary as all of
that it, 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
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
This
legislation also provides for access
by the appointees of the Obama administration of all of your personal
healthcare information, your personal financial information, and
the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment
to the Constitution 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 for
the government and limiting the rights of We the People. 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.
Here is a link to the Constitution:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about
to have taken from us.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor