It also is a reminder that the Supreme Court is a political entity and a human one. Only the Justices who dissented from the majority decision on Obamacare were willing to take the heat. The majority ruled that the individual mandate under the commerce clause was unconstitutional, but gave Obamacare life as a tax.
It was always a tax, but President Obama repeatedly told Americans that it was not until his administration's lawyers went before the Supreme Court and admitted and argued that it was a tax. The lawyers on the Court agreed, the majority in effect saying that there is no limit to the ability of Congress to tax Americans.
As Politico.com reported: On the losing end of a 5-4 decision, Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito said that the entire health care reform law should have been struck down.
They wrote: "The Act before us here exceeds federal power both in mandating the purchase of health insurance and in denying non-consenting states all Medicaid funding. These parts of the Act are central to its design and operation, and all the Act's other provisions would not have been enacted without them. In our view it must follow that the entire statute is inoperative."
Obamacare is a blow to state's rights as sovereign republics.
A fellow blogger, writing under the pseudonym of J.D. Longstreet, warned that "The lesson here is -- don't play around with socialism. You cannot win. It kills its host country every time."
Not since the Civil War and the more recent 9/11 has America faced a darker day. That day killed nearly three thousand Americans. Today, the fate of more than three hundred million Americans has been sealed. This is particular true of older Americans who, if the law is not repealed, will learn to their dismay that they cannot have essential medical care if bureaucrats conclude it is too costly. Others will die waiting to be admitted to hospitals to mitigate cancers and other life threatening diseases.
It is a death sentence for them. It is a death sentence for America.
There is the prospect that Mitt Romney may secure election to office and that the Republican Party may secure control of the Senate as well as the House. Without question Obamacare along with the economy becomes the central issue of the months leading up to Election Day.
Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare 820 days ago.
The House will vote on a full repeal of Barack Obama's health care law during the week of July 9, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said Thursday morning. The scheduling of another repeal vote came less than an hour after the Supreme Court upheld the health care mandate.
This is, however, purely symbolic. The bill will not be taken up in the Democrat-controlled Senate. It would be vetoed if sent to Obama.
Too many with whom I have talked believe that the same Americans who elected Obama in 2008 will reelect him in 2012. He lied his way into office then and it is entirely plausible he will do so again.
© Alan Caruba, 2012
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Alan Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs", posted on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center, and he blogs at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com. His book, "Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy", is published by Merrill Press.
2 comments:
If Obamacare is so bad then why did Romney do the same thing? You ignore the fact that we have a health care crisis in the U.S. with rising costs and more uninsured people every year. To say that people will be denied care is ludicrous because right now people without insurance are being denied care and are dying as a result. Many doctors absolutely refuse to see people unless they have a card of some kind,and, there are private hospitals that are deliberately not helping people without insurance who show up in emergency rooms.
With respect, Romney's healthcare is not "the same" but this for another discussion. Yes people will be denied care and you are correct that people now only receive care by going to a local emergency room. Have you been to one lately? Yes, the delivery of healthcare is in need of a total overhaul-Obamacare is not THE answer-there are multiple other solutions that will not give government the control. Let the discussions continue. I find it interesting that your side seemingly had no difficulties with the fact that Congress folks did not read the law and your leader at the time said, sign it and then learn about it-amazing arrogance.
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