Mandatory Health Insurance- A Dangerous Road

To allow Congress to make the purchase of health insurance mandatory from private companies and to fine those that fail to purchase it is not only unconstitutional but also sets a dangerous precedent in our country.

Politicians tell us that the “commerce clause” found in the US Constitution allows this, but if you read the “clause” you will find that it gives Congress the authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations, between the states and with Indian tribes. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines commerce as “the exchange or buying and selling of commodities on a large scale involving transportation from place to place. So in order to have commerce you have to have someone buying or selling goods. If someone does not buy or sell goods then Congress does not have the authority to regulate them. We all know what it means to regulate something and nowhere does that include forcing the purchase of goods.

In regards to precedents, the federal government regulates many industries and types of business. If we are required by law to purchase health insurance or be fined or jailed because we choose not to, then what is there to stop them from forcing us to purchase other items in the future? I will tell you what is there to stop them. We The People.

Hello, Washinton. It's time to get a clue.

President Barack Obama has been in office for one year now, elected on a promise of "Change". A change from the same old politics in Washington. With this change he promised an end to partisan politics, pork barrel spending, and lack of government transparency.

In his first year in office Pres. Obama and the democrats in Congress have brought us the following things;

More government spending while our country spirals further and further in debt.

Partisan politics and pork barrel spending that have given us cap and trade and health care reform legislation that the polls show the majority of Americans oppose.

And backroom negotiations to ensure a hurried passage of this same health care legislation.

Now for a few things that we have seen over the past several months that Washington did not give us;

A Tea Party that has been ridiculed by both parties and the media, but that is now seen as more favorable to the public than either party.

The defeat of New Jersey's Democrat Governor, assisted in his re-election campaign by Pres. Obama, to a Republican candidate and the election of a Republican Governor in Virginia, both states that Obama carried during the presidential election. A slim loss of a virtual unknown conservative Republican in a New York congressional special election .

The toss up race for the late Sen. Ted Kennedy's Senate seat between health care bill supporting Democrat Martha Coakley, who was supposed to glide to an easy win, and the Republican Scott Brown who promises to vote against the bill

The announced retirements of key Congressional Democrats who supported Obama's agenda and are up for re-election this year.

The falling poll numbers of several Democrat incumbents that are currently up for re-election.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that the American people are sending a message to Washington. Unfortunately those that we have sent to Washington are either too stupid or too arrogant to see it (my money is on the latter) because it is business as usual on Capitol Hill.

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