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Re: Lunelle/contraception coverageFrom: Robert J. Woolley (wooll005@tc.umn.edu)Wed Jan 31 10:08:59 2001
In message <200101311433.IAA06475@mail.medispecialty.com> writes: > Bob - > > in case you've not noticed - medicare has been a fact of life since LBJ. > are you now stating medicare is unconstitutional? Yes. It always was.
let's alert Chief
> Justice Renquist and the Supremes. Sorry but medicare is a done deal. As I explained earlier (are you actually reading what I'm writing?), such a case would fail, because the Supreme Court for all practical purposes gave up no holding Congress to its constitutional powers with the court-packing threat. So now neither the Constitution nor the Supreme Court puts any significant check on the ever-growing Congressional grab for power. But that appears to be the way you want it.
i do not
> need to argue with you over the obvious. why not, instead, demonstrate 1) The founding concept of the Constitution (made explicit in the D of I) is that governments get their power from the governed. 2) The Constitution is the document which is the grant of certain powers from the people to the federal government. 3) The Constitution explicitly says that the federal government has only those powers given it in the Constitution: Amendment X (1791) The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. 4) Article 1, section 8 lists the specific powers that the people, via the Constitution, are granting to Congress. 5) Article 5 describes the means for the people to grant additional powers to (or take away powers from the federal government by constitutional amendment. This is the only means given by which Congress's powers may be either expanded or contracted. 6) Nothing in Article 1 or in any subsequent amendment gives Congress anything even remotely resembling the authority to enact a medical insurance program for sevior citizens. 7) Therefore, Medicare is an unconstitutional extension of proper Congressional power and function. Now, since you disagree with my conclusion in (7), please explain which of the preceeding premises or logical conclusions you consider faulty in arriving at it, and why.
> Now, once again, what is YOUR solution to the problem of the uninsured? Once again, I have to wonder if you're reading what I'm writing. To whatever extent we decide that we want to supplement the income of people we think are too poor, it should be done with money, not with specific programs that provide specific things. Let them decide what to do with it. If they want to buy health insurance, fine. If they want to save it for a college education for their kids, fine. If they want to blow it on a vacation to Aruba, fine. But then let them have all of the good and bad consequences of their choices. That is, they can't blow it on Aruba and then show up at the ER and expect free hospitalization and a government scholarship for their kids to go to college.
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