Holger Asks Why....
A) If the public option to be included in the Senate version of the national healthcare bill is soooooo optimal and soooooo needed, then why is there an "opt out" provision for the indivdual states?
B) And if this national healthcare bill is indeed Constitutional, then why is it so damn difficult for Congresspeople to explain WHY it is Constitutional?
A) If the public option to be included in the Senate version of the national healthcare bill is soooooo optimal and soooooo needed, then why is there an "opt out" provision for the indivdual states?
B) And if this national healthcare bill is indeed Constitutional, then why is it so damn difficult for Congresspeople to explain WHY it is Constitutional?
4 comments:
Income taxes are unconstitutional- that hasn't stopped them. We need a public option plan in this country - healthcare costs are out of control.
Rita,
Amendment XVI (1913)
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census of enumeration.
so you are wrong..... again...
and WE CAN NOT AFFORD IT.
try Torte Reforms for reducing costs.
heh heh
The Cato Institute's paper on the subject is most interesting - deregulation of the industry would bring down insurance costs.
As usual, less government, not more, is the answer to the problem!
And, to those who cry about the high cost of health insurance - people, it's because of the high cost of health CARE!
I stand corrected Shark - sometimes I just spout off to bait right wingers. Was a constitutional amendment needed to establish Social Security or Medicare?
I have health coverage- I never use it because I'm healthy (knock on wood). I know someone who does not have it and goes to the emergency room to get prescriptions renewed- which is ass backwards. This is the way that the poor get coverage in this country- if an arm is broken they rack up lots of bills that they can not and will not ever pay - those of us with insurance end up paying for this, there must be a better way. Why not try what has WORKED in Canada, Israel, much of the industrialized world?
I'm all for some tort reform too.
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