Posted by
Dash42 on Monday, August 10, 2009 3:26:12 PM
Obama Blasts Healthcare 'Scare Tactics'
‘President Barack Obama fought back Monday against "scare tactics" aimed at derailing his drive to remake US health care, unleashing a battle-tested strategy adapted from his 2008 White House run.
Obama unveiled a new Internet site, www.whitehouse.gov/RealityCheck, inspired by his campaign's fightthesmears.com site, which countered rumors like the debunked but persistent claim that he was not born in the United States.
The move came as his Democratic allies alleged an orchestrated campaign of disinformation, including plots to disrupt lawmakers' "town hall" discussions on health care at home during the Congress's month-long August break. ‘
Meanwhile we have this…
Union thugs out for BHO’s Take Over
‘Organized labor is gearing up to make a big push for President Obama’s “public-option” healthcare plan, while also claiming to be the victim in melees that sent one town hall protester to the hospital late last week.
Union leaders appear to have decided that their best defense, following charges that town hall protesters were roughed up, is to levy those same allegations against the opponents of reform.
“Attacking a staffer? Harassing a pregnant woman? All in a day’s work for the opposition to healthcare reform,” one post on the Web site of the Service Employees International Union stated.’
And this:
Meanwhile, Conservative speakers are protested and shouted down at every opportunity. Not to mention what our distinguished Secretary of Snakes has said herself (paraphrase): Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
And we have this from RedState…
Let’s Talk Astroturf, detailing who is actually paying for demonstrators. Hint, it’s all of us.
Finally, we have the following Supreme Court cases which dealt specifically with Federal interference in local medical care:
Linder v United States, 268 U.S. 5, 18, 45 S. Ct. 446 (1925): "Obviously, direct control of medical practice in the states is beyond the power of the federal government."
U.S. v Anthony, 15 F Supp. 553, 555 (S.D. Ca., 1936) and U.S. v. Evers, 453 F. Supp. 1141, 1150 (M.D. Ala., 1978): "...the direct control of medical practice has been left to the states."
For those who are convinced that insurance is a new concept, I refer you to the following:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_insurance, while Wikipedia is admittedly iffy as a source, there is interesting information here, such as Benjamin Franklin (Yes, one of our Founders), sold fire insurance. So the concept of insurance was known to the Founders. That they did not address this issue in the Constitution tells me they felt it better left to communities and the Several States.
So, having presented all of this and read and re-read the Constitution, I can’t find anything that permits the Congress to do more than regulate the interstate trade of insurance policies under the commerce clause. Can any of you???