Health Care vs Bill of Rights

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IF YOU HAVE DOUBTS AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH , READ WHAT A
> CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER HAS TO SAY...
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>> Michael Connelly of Carrollton , Texas is a retired Constitutional
> lawyer and has read the entire health care bill and has some comments,
> not about the bill, but about the effects on our Constitution. It's a
> broader picture than just health care reform.
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>> It's time we sit up and pay attention; once this sort of thing happens,
> it will be irreversible. We have reason to be very afraid of what is
> happening.
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>> THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILLS
>
>> Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House
> Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it
> with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law.
> I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being
> discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than
> what I had heard or expected.
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>> To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its
> implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media
> are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care,
> particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are
> involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion
> services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of
> the medical profession.
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>> The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
> business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions
> about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats
> and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital
> admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical
> devices will be strictly controlled.
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>> However, as scary as all of that it, it just scratches the surface. In
> fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of
> providing affordable health care choices. Instead, it is a convenient
> cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of
> government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated. If this
> law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of
> the United States will effectively have been destroyed.
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>> The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power
> between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.
> Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama
> Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of
> the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is that the
> Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas
> to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution
> and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate
> health care.
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>> This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the
> Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information, your
> personal financial information, and the information of your employer,
> physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation of the
> specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution protecting
> against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about
> the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion
> regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide.
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>> If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private
> insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices
> Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you. It
> is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid
> application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However,
> that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows
> you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely
> depriving someone of property without the "due process of law.
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>> So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so
> much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are effectively
> nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though. The 9th Amendment
> that provides: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights,
> shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the
> people." The 10th Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the
> United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
> are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Under the
> provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people
> nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many
> areas that once were theirs to control.
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>> I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you
> get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power
> and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members
> of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation" to
> support the Constitution. If I was a member of Congress, I would not be
> able to vote for this legislation or anything like it without feeling I
> was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway,
> I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.
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>> For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they
> consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:
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>> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charte ... cript.html
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>> And another to the Bill of Rights:
> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charte ... cript.html
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