Last year we suffered the imposition of national-socialist healthcare by a government populated by “D’s”.
Now it appears that we will suffer attempts to “reform” national-socialist healthcare, and make it more palatable, by a legislature populated by “R’s”.
H.R.5 – `Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2011′
Many of us spent the last two years in attempts to put the Federal government back inside the boundary of the Constitution. Here we see clear evidence that these boundaries don’t matter to the sponsors and supporters of H.R.5
Unlike the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, this usurpation of power is being spearheaded by Republicans rather than Democrats. In a letter to four influential members of Congress (Lamar Smith, John Conyers, Fred Upton and Henry Waxman) constitutional scholar Rob Natelson responds.
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To be blunt: H.R. 5 flagrantly contravenes the limitations the Constitution places upon Congress, and therefore violates both the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. H.R. 5 is purportedly an exercise of the Constitution’s Commerce Power. Yet as I shall explain, its subject-matter—civil actions in federal and state courts—is not within the Constitution’s meaning of “Commerce.” Nor can H.R. 5 be justified under the Necessary and Proper Clause as incidental to the regulation of interstate commerce. On the contrary, during the debates over ratification of the Constitution, leading Founders specifically represented that the subject-matter of H.R. 5 was outside federal enumerated powers and reserved to the states.
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