Are Republicans planning to challenge the constitutionality of the Health Care bill?
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What else would one expect from the Guardians Of Privilege?
Somebody is going to challenge the constitutionality of the bill, you can bet on it. When FDR was pushing through the New Deal there were several constitutional challenges to it and several parts of it were ruled un-constitutional. This is basically the same scenario.
Yes, all Americans should. Once we start ignoring the Constitution there is no Nation. The Constitution does not allow the Federal Government to force a person to purchase a particular product.
And to those of you who come back with car insurance, first off, it’s the states, not the Federal government that do this, and second, you are not forced to purchase auto insurance, you are only required to buy it if you CHOOSE to REGISTER a car in a particular state. You can even drive without it by renting a car (the owner of the car, the rental company, purchases the liability insurance, one of the selling points of services such as “Zip Car” is that you don’t have to buy auto insurance, check out their web page if you don’t believe me).
And the point Tony W makes is correct, if the Federal Government treats people in different states differently, it violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.
Republican Senators don’t have really anything to do in stopping the Health care debacle. They blew it when it was voted out of “Cloture”. Republicans in the House are a minority so they don’t have any redress either. However, there are at least 18 State Attorney Generals waiting to see the what’s in the Bill that is signed by the President. If ANYTHING involving the “Sweetheart” deals Senators Nelson of NE and Landrieu of LA are in it, they (the A/Gs) plan on suing. Now according to Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the US Federal Appellate Courts jurisdiction 1st followed by the Supreme Court. Any person can bring a “Test” case to Federal District Court and have it appealed to the Supreme Court.
I believe a number of challenges are being prepared right now. Until the final bill is available legal action is on hold though.
Listen guys, I live in the U.K. so maybe I don’t qualify to answer this question but forgive me for pointing out the obvious,….
Are you not free?
Can you not decide for yourselves whether or not to buy into this crap?
Ignore the whole thing man.
What’s gonna happen, they will throw you in jail because you have decided of your own free will not to purchase health insurance?
If anything is gonna show you that Fascism has taken over the United States (the land of the free) it should be this,….or nothing will.
OVERTHROW THE FASCISTS BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE!
God help you all.
Best wishes.
They will do anything to protect the interests of the (un)insurance companies who fund them. So yes, they probably are.
FACT – Insurance companies in the USA admit to pushing up prices, buying politicians and not paying out claims when they should [a]
FACT – PER PERSON the USA spends more on healthcare than any other nation on the planet [b]
FACT – Obama debated his plans before the election for healthcare [c]
FACT – the chance of a child under five of dying in the USA is greater than industrialised nations with universal health coverage [d]
FACT – Obama was elected by the American people to bring in change [e]
FACT – Obama wants to stop insurance companies screwing the American people [f]
FACT – The reforms Obama wants work in the Netherlands and in Switzerland [g]
If anyone can prove the facts above are wrong, e-mail me and let me know.
I would if I was a Republican or a lawyer. I would say that it is hard to justify the Federal government taking over an industry “for the good of the people” when insurance has been long established as a State right.
Most likely even with the Supreme Court with a conservative majority, we would still lose since the Federal government a long time ago set the precedence of doing what ever it wants.
State attorney generals have already began the process.
I believe they will challenge it. There are some definite considerations as to the constitutionality of things in the bill. For one, the government will have access to your financial information in real time. That seems very intrusive to me. How do I know how carefully those records will be kept and by whom? The government will be able to verify the ‘Status’ of your eligibility for health care by going into your bank account records and verifying what you have there. Do you want that to happen? I don’t.
With cybersecurity being as terrific as it is, do you want other nations or just criminals to possibly get into your accounts and syphon off money. The bigger government gets, the more fraud and abuse there will be.
I do think that the government should help main street, but not by forcing us to have health care or paying a fine if we don’t get health care insurance. They could just have easily made changes to or enacted laws to prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for existing conditions and making them accountable for their own expenses. If I went to the hospital I would not question the cost of an asprin or a bandage. Why are so may items in hospitals so exhorbitantly priced?
Where is the accountability for what hospitals charge patients? Do you think it will be less if the government is involved in paying for it. With all the medicare fraud that has gone on with dr’s and hospitals does anyone think that this health care bill will reduce the chance of fraud?
I think we need to re examine this bill and make sure that it really is in the best interests of our country. We did have debates on this all summer, but obviously both parties Dems and Repubs are not working together to fix what’s wrong with our health care system. I am not sure if there is a fix for it either….with over 300 million people it’s just not like other nations health care programs. How do you monitor 300 million people’s health care benefits?
There are at least 12 state attorney generals that will file a lawsuit as to the constitutionality of this bill should it become law.
I know of not one conservative on the Supreme Court. This label is thrown about as though people knew its meaning; clearly, however, few do. A conservative does not stand up for monopolistic corporations and agribusinesses that are so powerful that they can take huge tax cuts, taxpayer subsidies and use the money not for reinvestment in the US economy but to ship out our manufacturing base and our jobs with impunity, antitrust laws notwithstanding. Their lobbyists even write our laws. No true conservative would stand for such abuse and corruption in the US.
The corporatists have a majority on the Supreme Court. Would that conservatives were represented in this country! It is up to us to get out of knee-jerk mode and seriously decide whether what is in the interests of the wealthiest people in this country are also in the interest of the vast majority of us.
It would further the discussion if anyone other than The Patriot above were to demonstrate not a mastery of platitudes but a knowledge of what is actually going on.
***Edit: Note that not one person, including the person asking the question, mentions anything unconstitutional in the two bills now before Congress–all I read is hope that the Supreme Court will turn our health-care system over to the CEOs and stockholders for whom the American health-care system exists solely to enable them to transfer more and more wealth from the poor and middle classes to them. Therefore, I have no doubt that the for-profit insurance companies that value their greed over the lives and well-being of the American people will in fact do anything they can to deny coverage when such coverage costs them money. Since they want nothing more than to keep our premiums and pay out as little as possible, what value do they contribute? What good are they?
EVERYONE should be challenging this in court. There are at least FIVE different Constitutional problems within this bill, not the least of which is the fact that the Federal government CANNOT require that Americans purchase something just because they are Americans.
WAKE UP!!!
I hope they stop it, because it’s a bad bill the way it is, it will ruin our economy more.