House Passes Health Care Bill from Hell
(all of the sources are embedded in the Lew Rockwell link)
Posted by David Kramer on November 8, 2009 05:40 AM
LANDMARK HEALTH BILL PASSES HOUSE ON CLOSE VOTE
The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority. A triumphant Speaker Nancy Pelosi compared the legislation to the passage of Social Security in 1935 and Medicare 30 years later. [And we all know how "solvent" those two government programs are.]
The legislation would require most Americans to carry insurance and provide federal subsidies to those who otherwise could not afford it. Large companies would have to offer coverage to their employees. [Just what a company needs in bad economic times: another major expense. That should help it keeps its business afloat.] Both consumers and companies would be slapped with penalties if they defied the government’s mandates.
Insurance industry practices such as denying coverage because of pre-existing medical conditions would be banned, and insurers would no longer be able to charge higher premiums on the basis of gender or medical history. [Great! The gunvernment just forcibly removed probably the most important tool for an insurance company to be able to properly allocate risk in its insurance rates. That should really make private health insurance more "efficient."] The industry would also lose its exemption from federal antitrust restrictions on price fixing and market allocation. [We wouldn't want to let the market allocate resources properly; that's what we have a multi-trillion dollar indebted Federal Government for.]
It won’t be long now, folks.
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If the Senate passes this....
Then it is most certainly time for Civil Disobedience.
They may pass it, but let them enforce it when 100 million Americans refuse (or are unable) to comply.
It should not be argued that the citizens are bound by such a law when the Congress itself has no Constitutional authority to MAKE such a law. To make such an argument is to ascribe to Congress unlimited powers.
Do we need any more evidence that the House of Representatives (in the aggregate) is a public enemy?
Jack Pelham
Rule of Law Revolution
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Tipping that slippery slope
from the frying pan and into the fire.