The legislatures in Oklahoma and Georgia both took a step closer to health care freedom within their state boundaries. Both states are considering legislation known as the “Health Care Freedom Act,” which, is passed, would make public policy for the state that every person within the state is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services “without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.”
In Oklahoma, State Constitutional Amendments (HJR1054 and SJR59) have been approved by both houses of the legislature, and approval of amended versions are all that’s needed to put it before voters for approval in the coming election in November.
In Georgia, while similar constitutional amendments failed to garner the 2/3 vote to pass and are being reconsidered, Senate Bill 317 (SB317) passed by a vote of 31-16 and is in the House awaiting further consideration.
The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution codifies in law that the federal government is one of limited, delegated powers – and that all powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserve “to the States, respectively, or to the People.”
The founders, during the time of the Constitution’s ratification, made clear that a vast majority of regulatory powers would be left in the states – including social services, agriculture, mining, and more. Click here to read more.
Virginia, Utah, and Idaho have already passed a Health Care Freedom Act, and the Governor of each state signed it into law in March. More than two dozen other states are considering similar legislation or state constitutional amendments, including Arizona, where in November, voters will have the opportunity to approve or deny the resolution which already passed both state houses last year.
CLICK HERE to view the Tenth Amendment Center’s Health Care Freedom Act legislative tracking page
The Tenth Amendment Center has released the Federal Health Care Nullification Act, which directly nullifies the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” on a state level. Click here to learn more.
The question at hand is – shouldn't people be able to choose their own health care? What kind of a dictator steps in and says no to that? The magic money fairy does not come along and fund every entitlement under the sun – entitlements take money. Not only do we not have it, our government is placing policies into effect that discourage a healthy economy and insuring further economic decline. Also, the reality those compassionate liberals (that's pure sarcasm on my part btw) don't wish to acknowledge is the devastation that will be wrought upon the elderly and disabled.
I know it's easy to make disparaging remarks about the opposition 'whining', but that's just a cheap trick used by people who apparently can't form a logical argument to substantiate their position. It's also easy to disseminate misinformation about who really opposed the voting rights act, and which party opposed Abraham Lincoln – that's just someone being stupid trying to attract an equally stupid and uninformed, gullible audience.
The country is bankrupt. We have a budget deficit of nearly a trillion dollars a year. We have a trade deficit of 800 billion a year. We are 12 trillion in debt and that's not counting unfunded debt like Medicare, Medicaid and S.S. Add in Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and government pension and our debt is somewhere around 50 trillion. The federal reserve is now buying our treasury bills. It's only a matter of time before we see massive inflation and the dollar completely collapse. This health care bill does nothing to help the average Joe. It's just another attempt at enlarging government and interfering even more in our private lives.
The new health care bill is not perfect – far from it – but as the old Chinese saying goes, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step." There will be improvements made on it down the years – there absolutely needs to be – but this is a fairly good first step. We're on our way! The Conservatives will whine, but that's what they do best. They'll whine just as they whined when Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965, or the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Just as they whined when Harry Truman desegregated the army in 1947, or when Franklin D. Roosevelt brought Social Security into being in 1935. They'll whine just like they did when Woodrow Wilson tried to form the League of Nations in 1919 – or when Abraham Lincoln ended the institution of slavery in 1863! They whine a lot. Did you ever notice that?
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Tom Degan
Goshen NY
I've notice that 'liberals' seem to always put themselves on the right side of history on everything that makes them feel morally superior. I believe this is a tactic the progressives used because claiming moral superiority over anyone gives people a power as their judgment can't be questioned. They then throw anyone who disagrees with them in the racist pile so they don't have to deal with their arguments. Its a smart thing to do when you don't want to be questioned but have you ever wondered what other group of people in power also did not like being questioned? Has anyone wondered why this tactic is the preferred method for dealing with opposing opinions?
I believe that modern liberals are not liberals but totalitarians in every way. They demand everyone be a part of the 'community' and hold hands in brotherhood. This might sound well and good but Hitler said this as well and look what he created. Your way of thinking will destroy freedom as individuals are erased in favor of national community creation.
Liberals do a lot of whining, too. They whine about war, sort of, but then never really do anything about it, and never punish politicians for supporting it. They're a lot of talk, but basically unprincipled.