"I really wish I could call Rev. Wright, he always knew what to do"
Posted on 09/14/2009 3:47:52 PM PDT by Nachum
In his speech before Congress last week, President Obama attempted to win Republican support for his health care overhaul by agreeing to consider including medical malpractice reform in his plan. In an interview that aired on CBS' "60 Minutes" on Sunday the president shed some more light on what he meant -- and in which form he will not accept tort reform. (Read the transcript of the president's interview here.) ...
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I’m underwhelmed.
“His” plan....ROFL!
Don’t tell me; he won’t accept any tort reform that results in lawyers getting paid less than a base year say, 2007.
Say whatever it take to get votes, then forget about it. Who believes a word he says??
Like Obama would cross the trial lawyers and their millions in campaign contributions. At least Clinton would lie convincingy.
Yeah, the operative word in that sentence - “he would consider tort reform.” If he REALLY wanted it, “he would DEMAND tort reform.”
I call bull. He has no intention of getting in the way of his buddies the trial lawyers.
Liar.
He is a born liar.
“Say whatever it take to get votes, then forget about it. Who believes a word he says??”
Exactly! I don’t believe them! I don’t trust them!
Only one solution.
KILL THE BILL.
And that goes for CAP&TAX as well.
Do not fall in their trap of negotiating the details, because that’s what they want - they’ll throw in a bone or two (which later they’ll take away), meanwhile they will have succeeded in their main goal which is to establish the foundation and framework for stealing a big chunk of our freedoms and wallet.
This is our Rubicon. The point of no return. If they win we won’t recognize our country 10 years from now.
By what authority did he order the demo programs? There isn’t an existing law that authorizes them, is there?
Read this carefully friends ....
The Truth About the Health Care Bills - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney 08.24.09
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.
However, as scary as all of that it, 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 information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution 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. Here is a link to the Constitution: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/constituti on_transcript.html
And another to the Bill of Rights: http://www.archives.gov/ex hibits/charters/bill_of_ri ghts_transcript.html
There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us if we allow this bill to be passed.
Michael Connelly
Retired attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Obama is a LIAR, and this bill MUST be killed no matter what he says.
If he really wants to “fix” health care, then start by creating a panel with an equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and create a bill that is already debated and agreed upon.
This tossing a 1000 page bill- 3 different versions no less- on the tables of both houses and expecting it to be passed without anyone having time to read the first 100 pages never mind all one thousand, is ridiculous; no... just plain retarded.
Maybe we should just do tort reform and see how that goes?
Tearing up the world’s best healthcare for a few, seems a little wasteful and overdone.
Cancel the no-Stimulus bill and use the money to buy heath insurance for citizens.
Uh huh. He’ll “consider” tort reform as much as I’d “consider” voting for his bill.
Our Dear Leader has now clarified he is against the only reform which has been shown to work: caps on noneconomic damages. His words in the speech were just meant as a diversion to “moderate’ voters who are more interested in what he says than in what he means.
He’s going to cap malpractice awards at ten billion dollars.
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