Federal Health Care is Unconstitutional.

[imarvintpa]

The Congress has a very specific list of things that it can do, anything outside of that is illegal. Lets see if we can get any "Yes" answers from the list for federal health care.

Section 8 - Powers of Congress

• The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States
  • No. Common defense and general welfare refer to the union, not its people, so these taxes and duties cannot be used.
• To borrow money on the credit of the United States
  • No. At the rate we're going through our credit, this isn't going to be worth much. But this does not authorize health care.
• To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes
  • No, not really. This is for commerce that travels through borders, so I suppose any doctor providing care to a patient while each stands on a different side of a state border would apply, but I don't think it qualifies all doctors and patients.
• To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States
  • No.
• To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures
  • No.(BTW, it doesn't say print money either for a reason.)
• To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States
  • No.
• To establish Post Offices and Post Roads
  • No.
• To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
  • No.
• To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court
  • No.
• To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations
  • No.
• To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water
  • No.
• To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years
  • No.
• To provide and maintain a Navy
  • No.
• To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces
  • No.
• To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions
  • No.
• To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress
  • No.
• To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings And
  • No.
• To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  • No, since none of the former authorized health care.

Other than the 16th Amendment, no other powers have been granted to the Congress of the Federal government. And it is not for health care, just making it clearer (as mud) about Income Taxes.

So, please, tell me why this idea has any traction, and where's the constitutional amendment in the pipeline to do this?

I'm looking forward to being able to quit my job, renounce my citizenship, and have free health care (Obamacare), food (Food line), and housing (homeless shelter) in our wonderful country. It may not be of the same quality that I have now, but I'll be able to play WoW all day long, every day with my friends on my laptop using the public Wi-Fi.

Additionally, every bill that goes through congress needs to be checked against this checklist. And the majority of those bills fail.

IMarv