Healthcare Reform: The Rejection
Posted: 07 Apr 2010 21:06
I am not going to base this on whether or not the Healthcare System overhaul is needed, or not. The question I am going to raise is in part due to a story now gaining some very important momentum.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Barack Obama's administration, then what impact will this have on states' rights? Remember, in the Civil War states went to war not over just slavery, but the right to revoke the federal government's influence on state rights; i.e. -- the right to secede from the Union. The consideration from the federal government is that insurance and healthcare is an inter-state commerce, and thus under the jurisdiction of the federal government, just as anything interstate.
There are other states, post this report, that have considered joining the lawsuit, which brings the total to 20. There are still more considering.
I suppose the question is: Do you think that this violates the 10th Amendment? Which essentially makes the case for State Sovereignty.
Read the original story here.
18 states have joined together to reject the legitimacy of the bill to trump State and Individual rights by enforcing individuals to have to purchase healthcare or face fines or jail time.Reuters wrote: The joint lawsuit led by Florida and now grouping 18 states was filed on March 23 by mostly Republican attorney generals.
It claims the sweeping reform of the $2.5 trillion U.S. healthcare system, pushed through by Democrats in the Congress after months of bitter partisan fighting, violates state-government rights in the U.S. Constitution and will force massive new spending on hard-pressed state governments.
While some legal scholars think the suits will reach the Supreme Court, many agree that the supremacy clause of the Constitution, which puts the powers of the U.S. government above those of the states, will trump the states' arguments.
"We welcome the partnership of Indiana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Nevada and Arizona as we continue fighting to protect the constitutional rights of American citizens and the sovereignty of our states," Florida Attorney General Bill
McCollum said.
If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Barack Obama's administration, then what impact will this have on states' rights? Remember, in the Civil War states went to war not over just slavery, but the right to revoke the federal government's influence on state rights; i.e. -- the right to secede from the Union. The consideration from the federal government is that insurance and healthcare is an inter-state commerce, and thus under the jurisdiction of the federal government, just as anything interstate.
There are other states, post this report, that have considered joining the lawsuit, which brings the total to 20. There are still more considering.
I suppose the question is: Do you think that this violates the 10th Amendment? Which essentially makes the case for State Sovereignty.
Read the original story here.