SPEAKNOWAMERICA.ORG: Are There 4 Constitutional Defects To Obamacare?

Are There 4 Constitutional Defects To Obamacare?

Did Socialist Obama And Democrats Overreach With Obamacare?

There appears to be as many as four Constitutional defects in socialist Barack Hussein Obama’s Obamacare socialized health care. There will be challenges to Obamacare in Federal Courts that eventually will reach the Supreme Court. Obama and the Democrats may have overreached in their bid to socialize health care.

The main constitutional violations address what the Congress has ordered the States to do and what it has ordered individuals to do. These unconstitutional and troubling provisions are:

1. Order individuals to acquire health insurance that provides coverage acceptable to the federal government.

2. Order the States to increase state taxes and spend the money collected on healthcare.

3. Transfer regulation of healthcare from the states to the federal government.

4. Put a federal bureaucrat between patients and physicians.

The states formed the federal government, and not the other way round. When they did so, they gave away only seventeen specific powers, all written down in the Constitution, and expressly retained for themselves that which they did not give away. At the time the States formed the federal government, they were independent nation-states, and the powers that they gave to the new federal government were aspects of nationhood. Examples of the powers include raise an army and navy to defend the country, operate a court system, provide for standard weights and measures, coin money, and run a post office.

These are all aspects of nationhood with which the States would no longer be concerned. But the States retained for themselves the power to legislate for the health, safety, welfare, and morality of the people in the States. The federal government simply has no authority under the Constitution to regulate in these areas or to tell the States how they should do so.

The Democrats have argued that the power the Constitution gives to Congress to regulate interstate commerce permits it to regulate healthcare. When you go to your doctor, is that for commercial purposes, or is it to enhance your health? The power to regulate interstate commerce was given to the Congress so it would keep commerce between the States regular, by eliminating state tariffs. It was not given to regulate purely local professional services like visiting a doctor. Can the Congress regulate a local Tea Party? Of course it can’t.

The Congress that enacted this monstrosity recognizes no limits on its own powers. It does not take seriously its oath to uphold the Constitution and it acts like a general legislature that can right any wrong, regulate any activity and tax any event. That is 180 degrees contrary to the values of inalienable rights and limited government that the Framers gave us.

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