THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILLS PRESENTLY IN CONGRESS

[Guest guest]

The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly,

Ret. Constitutional Attorney

 

Well, I have done it! I have

read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable

Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular

emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law.

I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being

discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than

what I had heard or expected.

 

To begin with, much of what has

been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite

what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does

provide for rationing of health care, particularly where

senior citizens and other classes

of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal

immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation

in abortions by members of the medical profession.

 

The Bill will also eventually

force private insurance companies out of business, and

put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal

health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and

most of them will not be health care professionals.

Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of

necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the

government.

 

However, as scary as all of that

is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this

legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care

choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive

transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government

that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a

similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of

the United States will effectively have been destroyed.

 

The first thing to go will be

the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive,

Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.

Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama

Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives

of the American people, and the businesses they own.

 

The irony is that the Congress doesn't

have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin

with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution

and find any authority granted to the members of Congress

to regulate health care.

 

This legislation also provides

for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, of all of

your personal healthcare direct violation of the specific provisions

of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution

information, your personal financial information, and the information

of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting

against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also

forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into

oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may

provide.

 

If you decide not to have

healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not

deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by

Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax

instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due

process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that

doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you

to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely

depriving someone of property without the due process of law.

 

 

So, there are three of those

pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten

in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by

this law

It doesn't stop there though.

 

The 9th Amendment

that provides: The enumeration in the

Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or

disparage others retained by the people;

 

The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to

the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the

States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither

the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all

in many areas that once were theirs to control.

 

I could write many more pages

about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not

about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights. Article

6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of

Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the

Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would

not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without

feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted

for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me

accountable.

 

For those who might doubt the

nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source,

the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly

what we are about to have taken from us.

 

Michael Connelly

Retired attorney,

Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton , Texas

 

 

 

AFTER HAVING READ THIS, PLEASE FORWARD....

 

If you don't care about our constitution, or

your rights under it, just do nothing.

 

WE MUST HOLD CONGRESS ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE IT

IS TOO LATE.

 

 

Richard Slemaker