Re: Lunelle/contraception coverage

From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Tue Jan 30 14:28:25 2001

Bob -

power of congress is to legislate - that is IN the constitution. and the power is derived from the people. why is this a hard concept? Bob, the number of uninsureds needs to be addressed. so i ask you how YOU would solve this problem. or do you not think this is a problem? this is a time for solutions, not a civics discussion.

art

At Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Robert J Woolley wrote: >
>On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, art fougner, md wrote:
>
>> eventually, Bob, Congress will have to come to grips with the number of
>> folks who have NO coverage - no medicare, no medicaid, no employer
>> benefits, no nothing. not talking contraceptive coverage - am talking
>
>Why? It simply isn't a proper congressional function. It's none of their
>business whether anybody has health insurance. That is not among the
>reasons that the federal government exists. It's not there to be anybody's
>mommy, giving out food and clothing and shelter and money and health care.
>
>Again I ask, can you find me any thing that looks like "provide health
>insurance" on the list of the speicif things Congress is granted power to
>do in the Constitution?
>
>If not, but you still want Congree to do it anyway, then what you want is
>a Congress with literally unlimited power. (Because if their power is
>not limited by the Constitution, then by what *is* it limited?) Why
>anybody would want that is beyond my comprehension.

--
art fougner, md


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