We need to forget about changing the health care law. That’s just a symptom. We need to go after the disease.
We need a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting the government’s ability to tax non action. This includes the ability to compel purchases.
While we are at it, we need to pass another Amendment limiting the government’s ability to seize private property for the use of other private citizens or businesses.
We can either sit around complaining about Robert’s decision or we can over-ride it with an Amendment. If we do nothing then we are submitting to their rule. Remember they work for us -not the other way around.
In the wake of the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare"), NPR's "Talk of the Nation" held a seminar of sorts at the Aspen Institute's legendarily pretentious Ideas Festival. Someone in the audience asked NPR health policy correspondent Julie Rovner this question: "Today's decision is a positive decision for the estimated 50 million uninsured Americans. Who are the losers today?"
Rovner seemed to struggle to find losers. She came up with insurance companies that want the so-called individual mandate -- now a punitive tax, according to the Supreme Court -- to be much more punitive. After thinking...
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