Chief Justice Roberts’ Dred Scott Moment
In 1857 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that forever changed the course of human history. Infamously known as the Dred Scott decision, the Court ruled that states that outlawed slavery could not forbid slaveowners from bringing slaves into their states and holding them as slaves there. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney wrote that blacks were,
beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations, and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.
This was a shocking violation of the founding principle of our great republic, individual rights. Clearly, personal subjectivity and partisan politics motivated this ruling. And here we are again, courtesy of Chief Justice John Roberts.
Slavery persisted as a contentious issue our Founding Fathers battled only to acquiesce to the South’s demands when it became painfully clear that there would be no United States of America if they banished slavery. The thinking, of course, was that it would be determined at a future date. And it was. It was bloodily and brutally settled with the Civil War.
Judge Roberts’ decision will produce a comparably deleterious outcome. His unconstitutional decision on Obamacare mandates the slavery of the American people to the U.S. government, forcing us to make health care decisions in accord with government fiat. Further, the taxes will prove so prohibitive as to enslave the people and make all productive Americans wards of the federal government. “To be a socialist,” said Joseph Goebbels, “is to submit the I to the Thou. Socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.” Is that not what Obama is doing?
I agree. It is heart-warming to see more than one state declare already that it won’t implement Obamacare. It is troubling that more than one state has already declared it WILL implement Obamacare now–the seeds of civil war already sprouting, with states taking conflicting positions on a federal law (dealing, as they say, with one-sixth of the national economy). Entitlement society (with “universal” handouts just big enough to trap those who despair, into a life of subsistence) vs. the human desire to succeed on one’s own in the world, without an overlord’s shackles (more than just the American dream).
I hate to mention this but we’re not talking about 1/6th of the economy, it’s really 100% because once you have health care you have the people. You can ban products and activities as being “unhealthy”, you can force the purchase of products or require participation in activities deemed “healthy”, and your decisions can be completely arbitrary. You control where people live, work, eat, and recreate. It’s a bureaucrat’s greatest dream come true – ultimate power – and that’s why the GOP really has do desire to shut it down. Oh they’ll talk about “Repeal and Replace” while simultaneously saying “you know, there are a lot of good ideas in that bill”. ObamaCare is merely the tip of iceberg, we must rid ourselves of the vast majority of the Government behemoth.
The good news is that implementation of ObamaCare will not be quick and easy. If the Republicans can hold the House, they can block funding and other steps needed to actually put socialized medicine into effect. States can also help block the way by refusing to set up or participate in the “exchanges” established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. (What an example of false labeling!) Ideally, if Mitt and enough GOP candidates win in November, the whole monstrosity can be tossed, but even without that good fortune, this battle has just begun.
The House could have already blocked funding for ObamaCare. We put the Republicans in a strong majority two years ago. The Republican House, under the leadership of John Boehner, has funded ObamaCare against the strong wishes of the very people who put the Republicans in charge. The Republicans in power are most focused on raising money for their re-election and staying in office. They have shown no desire to actually do what their own supporters want them to do.
Actually Kent what happened was the dems put a provision in the bill whereby 100 million automatically went out for funding. It’s unconstitutional and I don’t know how they got away with it, but they did.
Repealing Obamacare is not as difficult as trying to motivate rino republicans to “grow a pair” man up and commit themselves to this task. Just look at McConnel’s statements recently. What a wimp! Sure repealing Obamacare will be difficult but exactly how difficult? This bill is such a travesty that many of the most sickening provisions have NOT even appeared yet. These provisions are timed to go off like IEDs-blowing another hole in the confidence and morale of these rino leaders we have. I say no matter how difficult,, this law must be repealed, de-funded, de-clawed, de-contaminated, and all these punk liberals who are joining the various agencies, boards, panels, agencies, death panels, advisory groups, and general do-nothing SEIU types NEED to be told that they will be fired as soon as we put stake in the heart of this crap sandwhich called Obamacare. Nothing less will get teh job done. The election of the right kind of conservative hard asses is what we need. This is not a time when the ole “reach across the isle” pandering rino republican will do!! Mark my words.
I fear that convincing Republican legislators to fight on our behalf will be ultimately fruitless. These are politicians: they are where they are because they desire power over others irrespective of their political label. Obamacare promises vast power for bureaucrats and politicians. Think of the rent seeking, graft, and “constituent services” that will result from the biggest entitlement in our history. Already many Republicans are hesitant to repeal portions of the ACA (i.e., forcing insurance companies to issue policies regardless of pre-existing conditions and keeping 26 year old “kids” on parents’ policies) and others insist we must “repair” not “repeal”. Frankly, I don’t see this ending well.
Have to agree with you, I’ve been convinced for a long time that we are a one party nation. All these politicians we elected only care about themselves. Now there are a few that seem to really care, but we need to step up as Americans and elect people who are truly for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At the same time vote out these simply terrible politicians who just want to line their own pockets during the day with our money and go back to their gated communities at night.
Truth. So why wait? Let’s go do what needs to be done and throw the bastards out. All of them. Dred Scott? Well, we know what the outcome will be at least. Let’s get started.
I sit on the board of an insuarance pool that covers about 2,400 lives, and so claim to know a little about the subject. Most insurance companies have already implemented the pre-existing condition and 26 year old provisions and worked them into their rate and risk structures. The public overhwelmingly says it is in favor of these things even as Obamacare in the whole is unpopular.
It does no good for the cause to take cheap pot shots at the only viable alternative to the Democrats. Even the furthest to the left RINO is more conservative today than is 90% ot the Democrat party, which is ruled by the far left wing, and given the opportunity would see this country trip merrily down the road to Euro-socialism.
We can either grab our socks and beat the snot out of the Democrats in November, or we can sit around bitching and moaning about how all poiticians are the same and accomplish nothing. A Tea Party House and Senate will hold Mitt’s feet the fire, and we can fix this thing. Choose wisely.
“Even the furthest to the left RINO is more conservative today than is 90% ot the Democrat party”
What bull.
And those “provisions” are popular only as long they don’t have to be paid for, so the support doesn’t really exist, does it?
Put a sock in it, Tom! He’s right! If we take a defeatist attitude, we have lost before we have even begun to fight. Participate in the Tea Party movement or do something to support the mission to defeat the leftists.
Amen, bobbcat.
Recognizing reality is the only way to win. Those measures are popular because they think they don’t have to pay for them.
What do you think the Tea Party is but the recognition of that reality?
And if you think Romney isn’t left of center, consider he prototype Obamacare in Romneycare. It isn’t a matter of what state vs national government have the constitutional power to do, it’s where the the executive knows what government should not attempt.
Romney doesn’t know, he’s left of center.
If he wants to begin to prove me wrong or have a chance for my vote, he needs to disavow–in light of Roberts screw ups–his stated goal of putting more like Roberts on the court. He needs to promise credibly to put up more like Thomas.
Of course he’s left of center Tom, but Obama is a Communist. Read any Mao Tse Tung lately? He is this man’s idol. If we re-elect this hateful, racist, destructive person to the presidency again we will have no more country.
No, we’re dead in the water if we don’t do the right thing soon enough. I don’t think Romney will do nearly enough of the right thing to have anything happen except get the GOP blamed for the next crash. A GOP lead House and Senate should be able to prevent Obama from getting anything more of what he wants.
If they can’t, the GOP generically isn’t a part of the solution.
I agree with Tom that a Romney win will likely result in Republicans and “conservatism” (or whatever Romney believes in) being blamed for the inevitable collapse. Kinda like George Bush’s puny tax cuts caused the real estate meltdown without any input from the CRA, subprime mortgage extortion, repeal of Glass-Steagall, mortgage backed securities guaranteed by derivatives, etc. Noooooo….. it was ALL evilbush and conservatism to blame.
If we can’t straighten this out in the next election, the next step is wide spread civil disobedience. Then, finally, the teeth of the bill of rights to rid ourselves of the long train of abuses of the three arms of government, and a return to originalist constitutional government. No more fascism, which is what this trash is in reality.
Boo hoo, the SC declined to do my work for me… Really?? This has all of the armchair conservatives in a brouhaha because it means that they will have to get up and change the channel. You want a pol to grow a pair? How about you grow a pair first and then you will get a pol with a pair out of your hard work.
Roberts made his play and now it is up to US! I commend the man for making what is surely a seminal decision in history. He may or may not be known in history as a patriot or villain. His history will be determined by those who will not go quietly into the night. By those whom have nothing to fear but fear itself.
So grow a pair will ya. Stand up, be heard. Vote with a ballot because the next vote will be with a bullet if you don’t. Vote as if your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren depend upon it.
“Boo hoo, the SC declined to do my work for me… Really?? ”
The Supreme Court has failed to do it’s work. We should call them on that and bemoan it, and there is nothing in doing that which either prevents other action to correct their error or makes it less likely to succeed.
Identifying the problem is required for it to be fixed, and it is a problem that Roberts screwed up.
You don’t get it: Roberts established a precedent that the federal government can tax “anything”, including NOT buying a commercial product. That ruling will stand , until a future Supreme Court expressly overrules it or an Amendment to the Constitution (a difficult thing to achieve) restates the limits of federal taxing power.
THAT’s what happened here.
By Roberts’ reasoning, the government could levy a tax on conservative media. Wanna pay a $100 tax everytime you visit PJ Media? Even the misguided belief that the mandate was a tax should not result in it’s acceptance. Roberts acknowledged that the mandate was unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, so how can using a tax in furtherance of an unconstitutional purpose be constitutional. How about a $10,000 per month tax on Christian churches?
i still claim that Justice Roberts sent in a conservative Trojan Horse, that it was not capitulation. He changed the narrative, the battle line that the progressives had established for this election. What I have been most concerned about is the complacency of the electorate. We complain, we blog, we wring our hands, but essentially do nothing about our plight. This Supreme Court ruling has possibly motivated the electorate to “do something about it.” Obamacare is the evil that we’ve been saying it is. Don’t just repeal this on a one-time fix. Dig deep. Get to the Constitutional root of it, may it never happen again. Let this battle be clearly defined, and defined by the Patriots. Hold our leaders to the higher standard intended by our founding fathers, and don’t be weak about it.
“i still claim that Justice Roberts sent in a conservative Trojan Horse, that it was not capitulation.”
I think you may be right. I don’t look at this decision as having been an easy one at all. He addressed the key issue of this bill: The mandate. I am with Roberts in saying it’s a tax, as it has all the attributes of such. People need to calm down & join the fight as it unfolds (it has already begun.
Overall a sharp post. Kudos to you.
The news is out on this. Roberts initially sided with the 4 conservatives and then changed with the political pressure brought by the liberals including this dictator president. Roberts has sealed the reputation of the Roberts court unfortunately he will be regarded about as highly as Taney when the full story is out. Selling out and threading the political needle is not his job or the SCOTUS job. They are to interpret constitutionality. They failed. Robert’s failed. The fact that 4 drone liberal judges of the low caliber of Ginzberg agree with him does little to reinforce the horrendous behavior of Roberts. He will go down as a cheap political hack. just like the president.
True conservatives everywhere are outraged largely because Roberts’ arguments make no sense and there is a prevailing belief that he doesn’t believe them himself. This would appear to be the first time in history that a Supreme Court justice wrote BOTH the majority opinion AND the dissent. The “Obama Way” is to intimidate your opponent with dirt. One can’t help but wonder what Axlegrease has on Roberts. A horse’s head (or ass) under the sheets kind of thing.
The mandate is as much a tax as is a speeding ticket or parking ticket. In other words, it isn’t a tax at all but a penalty. But can a tax be levied for an illegitimate purpose? Suppose a tax of $1,000 dollars was levied for every visit to a conservative website? By following Roberts’ “reasoning” one would have to say yes, because, after all, it’s not an attack on political speech but merely an exercise of the governments oh, so legitimate taxing power. But anyone with half a brain can see that a tax in furtherance of an unconstitutional purpose must itself be unconstitutional.
Roberts didn’t “send in” a Trojan Horse, he IS the Trojan Horse.
Then you don’t have the slightest comprehension of what Roberts has done. He has in a single opinion (NOT the opinion of the court) made a political move by legislating that a law with no precedent that was presented in the form of a hollowed out shell and built upon later is constitutional. It is NOT and CANNOT be constitutional, as the constitution does not give the president or congress the right to determine such things. He has called it a tax by rewriting the law and legislating from the bench, much as Obama has been legislating from the executive branch. He does not specify what kind of tax it is and puts no limits on the taxing power within the law. This is completely unprecedented and lawless. He has done nothing less than change our way of government. Hate to tell you, but this is a full-on dictatorship at this point.
“Abraham Lincoln, the second-ever Republican nominee for president, won in 1860, that key presidential election, on the platform of stopping the further expansion of slavery. We can expect history to repeat itself in 2012, if and only if Mitt Romney seizes this historic opportunity to restore the American principle of individual rights and unabashedly drive collectivism and statism into the grave”
Until and unless he renounces his endorsement of Roberts, and his promise to put more like Roberts on the bench, and credibly makes an effort to repair the damage Roberts has made to the constitution–he ain’t the guy who will do that.
ROMNEY? You mean Obama Lite? He had to have experienced the most powerful orgasm of his LIFE when the Roberts Treason came down. It’s a Statist’s wet-dream. Unlimited government power! You think ROMNEY – the author of Romneycare, and the former governor of Taxachussets is going to trim back the power of government?
Can you give me a call? I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona to sell you – it’s got a HECK of a beach.
You badmouth Romney falsely in this, because Romney very publicly came out with the same (proper) reaction to the Obamacare ruling that I did, at odds with the Republican “line”, and those who would chant it here, that the fine for not buying healthcare insurance is a tax. I insist it is a PENALTY, levied against you if you don’t buy health insurance, and clearly intended to force (“coerce”) you to buy health insurance (it goes up yearly, at least for the first 3 years), and Romney said the same thing early on, “It is a penalty”, thus creating a small brouhaha, because the Republican pols all wanted to say, “see, it’s the biggest tax in history!–well, whether it is a tax or not, it is CERTAINLY a penalty, and in my opinion the fact that it is a penalty outweighs any reasoning that makes it also a tax. John Roberts is not worthy of my respect as a “Highest Court” Justice, and neither are the pols or anyone else worthy of my respect on this point, who echo Roberts’s false judgment that “it is a tax, not a penalty”. I am focused upon its being a tyrannous imposition against my inalienable rights as an individual, by an out-of-control, fraudulent government, and that is the only consistent, competent view of the matter, to me. And I was surprised, and much gladdened, to see Romney got it right too, in the face of the petty, clueless pols, who don’t give a ____ whether I am falsely penalized by the law or not. Romney showed he got it, and in my opinion, everyone should reward such clearly superior character by voting for him in November.
No, Romney doesn’t get it.
If he got it, he would already have stated he changed his mind and doesn’t want more like Roberts on the court, and, BTW, Romneycare wouldn’t deserve his name if he “got it”, get it!?
Why not split the difference and call it simply a “PENALTAX” or P-AX, because that is in fact what it is: A penalty via the tax-process on those who do not do as the Feral Government directs. And, then make THAT public, big time.
I have a bumper sticker suggestion for the Romney “ad-freaks”, assuming there are any with even half the “brains” of that lying slob Axelfraud:
“P-AX (Picture of BO’s face as Uncle Sam,leering, right hand smoking a reefer,
left rubbing two coins with pointy pointing at you!) OBAMA”
Second line: ” Your Money – Greek Style” or
“He/She Lied” (see below)
Variants: Pictures of Pelosi or Reid as Uncle Sam, between “Your Money – Dem Style” or simply replace “Obama” w. “Pelosi” or “Reid”
I know, it’s Latin, and some others will know too, but most will get the idea that the average Joe who works for a living is about to get the shaft and end up “broke as a Greek” anyhow!
As to the variants, print gazillions of these and give people who still like O’bummer a choice. The message will still get across: O’bummer, Peelyasee, Greid are all out to get you. Just vote their opposites; get all damn Dems in one fell swoop!
They lied to us! Now they OWN THAT LIE + ALL OTHERS!
Well, the Dred Scott case certainly does help put the Roberts’ Court ruling in perspective, doesn’t it? The court has made spectacularly wrong decisions in the past due to political expediancy, and they eventually get corrected.
Let’s hope the ACA decision is reversed at a far lower cost than the Dread Scott case was.
nice try to equate Mitt Romney to Abraham Lincoln.
Bush Sr would be a better comparison, except the Romney doen’t approach Bush Sr’s milquetoast level of guts and conviction.
The Traitor John Glover Roberts, Jr. failed his oath, his office, and his country. Let his name be associated forever with Benedict Arnold and all others who betrayed their fellow Americans. May the misery he inflicted be laid on his head ten-fold.
As for the do-nothing RINOs in Congress, repealing this abomination is surely no harder than what my son is doing in Afghanistan with his Green Beret team: carrying heavy loads and fighting the Taliban for months on end. I’ve come to expect nothing good from government in America at any level, federal/state/local, all of them being populated by parasites on the taxpayers for personal gain and power over others.
Who will fire the second shot heard round the world? Will it be at Concord, or on the Potomac? Will the military fight against The People, or will it stand down while the government lackeys and thugs run away as their evil offices, agencies, and departments are shut down, dismantled, eliminated? There will be blood before this theft of freedom is resolved. Live free or die, America.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
This was blackmail, pure and simple. The Chicago Way. Obama’s MO since he entered politics as a community rabble rouser. He’s been perfecting it ever since. That’s what he keeps Axelrod around for.
Now, I know many people have said that the blackmail involved a threat to undermine the integrity of the court. Not it at all. The other justices spent a full month trying to turn Roberts around to no avail. Such tenacity can only be explained one way. Axelrod’s oppposition research goons found something in Robert’s past, so incriminating and/or embarrassing that Roberts would do anything to keep it a deep dark secret. That’s how Obama/Axelrod have always operated even getting a divorce court to open court protected divorce proceedings against one of Obama’s opponents. One can only guess what they found out about Roberts.
But blackmailers never go away. They always come back for more so look for Roberts to turn into a complete toadying fool for the Left.
Now what we on the right must do is to retrace the steps taken by Obama’s political hit men. We have to find out what they have on Roberts and then go to him with it and demand his resignation. He’s a coward. He’ll resign.
Here I go repeating myself (but I’ll do it ISMW): They may have nothing at all on Roberts. Maybe someone issued a threat on his very life or the life of his loved ones. Is that such a remote theory that it doesn’t merit consideration? Absolutely not with this bunch!!
Not likely. Obama/Axelrod aren’t that brave. They’re sneaky. That’s their nature.
The principle of Occam’s Razor, often used in science, states that the simplest explanation of any given phenomenon is usually the correct one. Here, I think Roberts is sufficiently intelligent that he would realize the hit to his legacy and reputation would be enormous by ruling the way he did. Some overriding consideration, such as his worry over his wife’s reaction to some hidden- possibly adulterous- misdeeds, must have impelled him to take this incompetent and unfortunate path once the blackmailers announced their intentions.
I was going to post a rebuttal but i figured your American conservatives and can’t handle a reasonable debate without it devolving into name calling and blaming the deficit on Obama when we all know it was the Bush tax cuts and one invasion that did not have to happen.
So there !
Aren’t we a bit off-topic here? We’re not talking about the Obama recession – or Bush’s decision to invade Iraq! Haven’t you noticed? We’re up in arms about socialized freakin’ medicine! We’re dumping on Chief Justice Roberts for his UNCONSTITUTIONAL decision – or maybe you didn’t notice…
gcb,
You were going to reply to what?
Do you know?
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote:
‘’ It is not our job to protect the people from consequences of their political choices ‘’
When you look at this statement, it says more than most people understand, he is saying that it’s not his job to protect us from the ignorant and stupid choice a majority of Americans made in 2008, those morons saddled us with the worst president in our history.
What he did was keep America from erupting into chaos if he had voted to declare obama-care UN-constitutional and strike it down.
You know in your heart of hearts what the left-wing liberals would have done !
They would have rioted in the streets like they did in the 60’s and burn down half the cities in America … they don’t know any other way to act when they don’t get what they want.
They are like the spoiled adolescent teen-ager that doesn’t get his own way and throws a tantrum and destroys things to get even with their parents.
Chief Justice John Roberts has thrown it back into the Congress to straighten out which will give us another chance to vote on it.
And now that we know whats in it ………………………………….. it will be voted down !
WE … will thank him in the near future.
Would that be such a bad thing? We could get rid of a lot of them AND clean up a lot of the cities in the process. Let ‘em riot! Declare martial law over the riot-areas and let us get rid of them permanently. It would surely get rid of a LOT of Democrats and that’s GOT to be a good thing.
Since it is not their job to fix voter F-U’s, it is also not their job to provide crowd control. Chief Justice Roberts accomplished his primary goal. That is spiking the Commerce Clause Cannon aimed at the heart of the Constitution. Both the majority and the minority agreed, non participation CANNOT be regulated as commerce. That is now settled doctrine.
Anonymous, Just who would be putting the National Guard, on Holder’s people?
No we won’t and that’s not his job. He was hired to faithfully interpret the constitution and to uphold the rule of law. What he did instead was re-write legislation and create his own law(changing the words of congress from “penalty” to “tax” and thereby interpreting a completely different issue than the one that had been presented to the court), gave congress UNLIMITED taxation power (which is not within the enumerated powers of the Supreme Court to do)and ensured that the wealthy who can afford to buy their way out of any mandate in any market (and this will be applied to MANY markets in the future, not just healthcare)will have more freedom than a person with little money to pay the tax. Obama has decided that he is King George and Roberts is playing the role of the sentry come to collect the stamp tax. In fact, the stamp tax is an excellent analogy, I think. Don’t kid yourself – this is no longer a representative republic. It’s a fascist state.
I think that Roberts should have ruled that the law could not stand as written. Instead he ruled against what obama has told us and that was that this was not a tax. Just like biden said that this is a BFDeal it’s a BFTax. Roberts said it’s up to the voters to change it. Come November we need to do just that.
He’s right, we should change things. We’ll start with term limits for Supreme Court judges. Then how about impeachment of a Supreme Court judge. Legislation is now coming from congress, Obama and the Supreme Court. Of course, since few people have read the U.S.Constitution since grade school most people don’t recognize tyranny when they see it. We are living in a post-Constitutional America and it is truly a brave new world.
What a wonderful article.
“Defiance, not obedience, is the Americans’ answer to overbearing authority.”
The Governors must do this. We don’t answer to one man named John Roberts, who with the following statement, showed himself to be, an arrogant, pompous ass, and doesn’t belong where his is.
“It is not our job to protect the people from the consequences of their political choices,” Roberts wrote.
His reputation is destroyed. We have to pressure him to resign, sometime early next year. He’s lost the respect of those that matter in this country, by giving in to the enemy. Benedict Roberts is his new name. He should be ostracized now.
Reality Check: President Obama and Mitt Romney Don’t Have Opposing Views On Healthcare?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyIXuce36gM&feature=plcp
Let’s overturn Obama Care. Face it folks. We get the government “WE the People” vote for. We have the mind-set it’s “them” against us when in reality they ARE us because we hire them. And we can fire them in November, send a message at the polls. And here’s a video explaining why many people vote lock-step time after time sending us spiraling down the path of destruction. Search him, K Carl Smith, with spaces and watch at least 15 minutes of his Vimeo video. He has a message for all to consider when we vote. Wake up America! Rise up and defeat the oppressor.
I don’t get all the fuss over Obamacare. I am libertarian but no longer republican. So as I understand it I get to cancel my current insurance of $600 a month and pay a penalty of $60 a month. Then if I ever get sick or have cancer or something, I just buy obama care then? PERFECT!
You don’t get it because you haven’t read any of it. Read it. It’s a tyrannical, bloated document that is filled with redistribution of funds, sets low limits for reimbursement for doctors (thus ensuring, as is happening, that many doctors will drop their practices), health care will be rationed and an independent panel advisory board (IPAB – you can see what this is like by Googling “Liverpool Panel”). Medicare has been gutted and no longer exists. This also means that older people (70+) will not get life-saving surgery, medical devices, bypasses, etc. They will be ordered to hospital-supervised end of life care with no food or water. This is already what health care is in the UK and Canada.
The legislation rewards hospitals for having higher minority population work forces and gives more money according to what percentage of workers are minority. You will no longer choose your doctor, you will be told what insurance you must buy from a private company, which will not have its rates capped. If the government decides that you don’t need care, guess what – you DON’T. End of story. It is to their advantage to deny you care as that will be cheaper. If you have a botched surgery or a health care worker is guilty of malpractice, you can’t sue them. They’re the government and what they say goes. You will be given an appointment, perhaps months in the future, for any medical issue you have. Is that date not convenient? Sorry, if you can’t make it you can’t have treatment. Tough. Hospital specialties (i.e. renal care, diabetes care, cardiovascular issues) will be treated in regional centers which you will have to travel to. For example, if you have a respiratory issue you may need to go to Minneapolis to the Mayo clinic. If you have a heart problem you may need to travel to the University of Kansas in Kansas City. At your expense. Hotel stay is on your dime, sorry. That is just the tip of the iceberg of what is wrong with this law. It is more an instrument to seize control of the U.S. economy for their own aims than to make a healthcare system. Read it. It will open your eyes.
You don’t get it because you haven’t read any of it. Read it. It’s a tyrannical, bloated document that is filled with redistribution of funds, sets low limits for reimbursement for doctors (thus ensuring, as is happening, that many doctors will drop their practices), health care will be rationed and an independent panel advisory board (IPAB – you can see what this is like by Googling “Liverpool Panel”). Medicare has been gutted and no longer exists. This also means that older people (70+) will not get life-saving surgery, medical devices, bypasses, etc. They will be ordered to hospital-supervised end of life care with no food or water. This is already what health care is in the UK and Canada. Even better, illegal aliens are covered by this bill but are exempt from paying the tax. This ensures that many, many poor people will flock to this country and overload the health care system. No sovereign nation can withstand that sort of system overload, and I’m sure it is what Obama is hoping for.
The legislation rewards hospitals for having higher minority population work forces and gives more money according to what percentage of workers are minority. You will no longer choose your doctor, you will be told what insurance you must buy from a private company, which will not have its rates capped. If the government decides that you don’t need care, guess what – you DON’T. End of story. It is to their advantage to deny you care as that will be cheaper. If you have a botched surgery or a health care worker is guilty of malpractice, you can’t sue them. They’re the government and what they say goes. You will be given an appointment, perhaps months in the future, for any medical issue you have. Is that date not convenient? Sorry, if you can’t make it you can’t have treatment. Tough. Hospital specialties (i.e. renal care, diabetes care, cardiovascular issues) will be treated in regional centers which you will have to travel to. For example, if you have a respiratory issue you may need to go to Minneapolis to the Mayo clinic. If you have a heart problem you may need to travel to the University of Kansas in Kansas City. At your expense. Hotel stay is on your dime, sorry. That is just the tip of the iceberg of what is wrong with this law. It is more an instrument to seize control of the U.S. economy for their own aims than to make a healthcare system. Read it. It will open your eyes.
The final outcome for us senior citizens is we will be “shovel ready.”
Let’s overturn Obama Care. We get the government “WE the People” vote for. We have the mind-set it’s “them” against us when in reality they ARE us because we hire them. And we can fire them in November, send a message at the polls. And here’s a video explaining why many people vote lock-step time after time sending us spiraling down the path of destruction. Search him, K Carl Smith, with spaces and watch at least 15 minutes of his Vimeo video. He has a message for all to consider when we vote. Wake up America! Rise up and defeat the oppressor.
Judge Roberts is an expert in Prostitutional Law.
I can’t believe that horse’s rump decided, “To Hell with the country! To Hell with the Constitution! I’m going to vote to maintain the prestige of the Court!” What a feckless little weenie!
Judge Roberts sez, “You wrote ‘mandate,’ and I know you meant ‘tax.’ Lend me your eraser, will you? There! All fixed!”
It’s a tax? It’s a mandate? It’s a candy mint? It’s a breath mint? It’s a Stalinist collectivization of medical care, that’s what it is. And it will do as much good for our medical system as collectivization did for the Soviet food supply.
To all and sundry: if you are going to use Dred Scott as an example of something you, unfortunately, need to know something about it. Roger Brooke Taney did not write the unfortunate quote found in the Geller article. He intensively researched the laws and practices with regard to blacks especially in the north and this was the essence of what he found. He ruled that the Supreme Court did not have the constitutional authority to grant standing to Scott, but that it required a constitutional amendment. At the time the decision was made, Taney spoke for 7 members of the court, two of whom were from the north. The 2 dissents were from McLean who hoped to use the occasion to help his presidential ambitions, and Curtis, whose position was determined to be unsound law by Justice Swayne (a Lincoln appointee) in 1871.