Posted on 04/25/2010 9:59:27 PM PDT by John Semmens
As state after state enacts measures to prohibit its citizens from being compelled to purchase health insurance, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius vowed that “all such measures will be overruled by the supremacy of the national government.”
Sebelius specifically rejected the argument that the Constitution’s Tenth Amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states. “I think the ‘general welfare clause’ pretty much disposes of any contention that any state can object to any action Washington takes to promote the general welfare of the people,” Sebelius argued. “Congress and the President have determined that the welfare of the nation requires that everyone be forced to buy health insurance. No resistance to this mandate will be tolerated.”
“The notion that any state or any individual, for that matter, can interpose their judgment for that exercised by the federal government is null and void,” Sebelius went on. “The best minds in the nation have decreed that the collective well-being necessitates requiring all to have health insurance. Whether an individual wants it or not is not an issue. Those residing in states that have passed so-called ‘opt-out’ legislation will be treated no differently than residents of other states. They will be fined if they don’t buy health insurance. They will be jailed if they don’t pay their fines. It’s as simple as that.”
To-date, more than 30 state legislatures have enacted “opt-out” legislation.
In related news, HHS released a report disclosing that, contrary to the President’s promises, the new health care law is expected to increase the nation’s health care costs instead of decreasing them. “Fortunately, this analysis didn’t come out before the bill passed,” Sebelius wryly observed. “Otherwise it might not have passed.”
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B!tch!
Sebilius: “I gotcha Constitution right heah!”
10th Amendment? What 10th Amendment? We have vague broad statements in the preamble of the Constitution we use for everything!
DANGIT! You nailed me!
I usually can see these coming, but today no outrage is outside the limits of he TOTUS and his handlers.
Well played...
This didn’t happen, and it isn’t humor. This bit is getting old.
“The supremacy of the national government???”
We the people have had just about enough of this dictatorial arrogance from these moronic blowhards.
Really is this satire? Nobody sounds like this outside of a dictatorship. They WILL get insurance or they WILL be jailed?
This is surreal.
Duuuude...you got me again...
Hey Kathy, how come when you have a white supremacist, it’s a bad thing, but when you have a government supremacist it’s a good thing?
Wow... with the way the economy is headed, that free trip to jail is a meal ticket.
LOL The only people who made out on Obamacare is the Health Insurance Companies and Drug Companies. For the first time in US history the fed gov can force people to buy a commercial product. I know some Freepers think the socialist regs in the law will put insurance companies out of business. Problem is politicians never seem to learn, corporations are alot smarter and flexible. Costs go up, no problem, lobby Congress to allow premium increases and turn around and tell the processors in the company that they will take pay cut backs or else face unemployment as their jobs are off shored or worst automated. Insurance companies can cut their labor and operating costs alot faster then gov regulators/conspirators can put the noose around private business. Insurance companies will find a way to maintain profit despite regulations. If the fed regs will eventually choke the companies, they simply take their profits and go into another line of business.
We the people have had just about enough of this dictatorial arrogance from these moronic blowhards.
Yep. Things are going to get ugly. We could see “Term Limits” as in Vince Flynn’s book by that name.
“The notion that any state or any individual, for that matter, can interpose their judgment for that exercised by the federal government is null and void,” Sebelius went on. “The best minds in the nation have decreed that the collective well-being necessitates requiring all to have health insurance. Whether an individual wants it or not is not an issue. Those residing in states that have passed so-called ‘opt-out’ legislation will be treated no differently than residents of other states. They will be fined if they don’t buy health insurance. They will be jailed if they don’t pay their fines. It’s as simple as that.”
And the use of force by federal agents — probably armed IRS agents — should unhesitatingly be answered by a like use of force on the part of the states.
“The best minds in the nation”? Who? Pelosi? Reid? Obama? The bill was not voted on but only “deemed” passed through a parliamentary trick. That takes devious minds, not “the best” ones.
Al Sharpton claimed that the recent law in Arizona regarding illegal immigration might cause him to encourage “civil disobedience.” We claim the same right of civil disobedience regarding the new healthcare bill (assuming it isn’t just shot down as unconstitutional by SCOTUS).
Yes, it’s satire — go to the link. However, the government has gone so crazy, almost anything is believable. It really sounds like something these statists would say, doesn’t it?
“No resistance to this mandate will be tolerated.”
She forgot to add “I must vorn you zat vee haf our methods.”
Sebelius.. Just a rehash of Pelosi. Obama’s biatches.
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