A Nod To The Gods

Health insurance companies are being regulated state to state, they are compelled by definitions of the Constitution and these rulings date back decades. I think it is time to take a closer look at some of these rulings as it pertains to insurance, because they favor the insurance companies and not the American people. If Congress is our mouth piece, I believe I want Obamacare repealed and insurance companies be forced/allowed to do business across state lines. Go get ’em mouth pieces.

Below is a law review I found interesting, worth the read. If you want to read the entire thing – go here.

Steven G. Calabresi, The Right to Buy Health Insurance Across State Lines: Crony Capitalism and the Supreme Court

The health insurance industry is just as much an industry as are General Motors and Ford. Just as the Commerce Clause allows Congress to regulate automobile emissions on cars that are bought and sold, the Commerce Clause also allows Congress to regulate the buying and selling of health insurance.

The holding of Paul v. Virginia that corporations are not citizens under Article IV, Section 2 is a catastrophe from a policy perspective because it allows in-state corporations to use state law to protect themselves from out-of-state competition subject however to the constraints of the Dormant Commerce Clause. In areas like insurance, where Congress has somehow purported to “override” the Dormant Commerce Clause by statute, the costs are immense. It is quite simply absurd to say that corporations have free speech rights and the right to sue in federal court but no right to compete on an even playing field in interstate commerce.

VI. CONCLUSION

When Congress delegates its Commerce Clause power to the States—a power that is almost certainly exclusive in some respects—it violates the text of the Constitution just as surely as it would if it delegated its power to declare war to the states. There are fifty states today, not thirteen as at the founding, and as a result there are countless more external effects of state legislation on other states as well as many more state line crossings. The fifty states simply cannot be trusted to regulate a huge national service industry on which we spend one-sixth of our GDP as a nation if the states have carte blanche to discriminate in licensing against out-of-state health insurers.

By upholding the healthcare mandate, the Supreme Court has ruled that all of us MUST now buy the services of the fifty state health insurance cartels, oligopolies, and monopolies. It is incumbent on the Supreme Court to make sure that American consumers are not turned into the victims of crony capitalism by a weird confluence of its bizarre Dormant Commerce Clause and Privileges and Immunities Clause doctrines. NFIB v. Sebelius obligates the Supreme Court to take a second look in the healthcare context at decisions like Prudential Insurance Co. v. Benjamin; Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. v. California; and even Paul v. Virginia.240 In A Common Law for the Age of Statutes, Judge Guido Calabresi argued for second look judicial review when a set of statutes passed at very different times in our history and coupled with old case law produce a result we doubt Congress would legislate today. It is time for the Supreme Court to put an end to Crony Capitalism in the health insurance industry.

Obama chose to leave out “God” in this mash up rendition of The Gettysburg Address. All of the other dignitairies who read the copy used “God” in their rendition. Check out the omission at the 1:35 mark. Any Questions?
A Nod to Weasel Zippers for the story. Read it all here.

Here is another quote by Lincoln:

As all of the fallout and panic hits the Democratic Party, the Obama boot lickers still cling to the fallacy that Obama kept his promise, and it is always prefaced with an “if” the health care plan you had met the new laws regulation.

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said it’s “absolutely a fact” that people who like their insurance plans can keep them, as President Obama promised – if that plan “met the standards” set by Obamacare, that is. CNSNews.com said to Boxer on Thursday: “After President Obama signed the ACA he said that if you like your health care plan you will keep it. No one can take that away from you.”

“I think everyone knows he said that,” Boxer said. She spoke shortly before Obama announced that he would let insurance companies renew policies for existing customers in the individual market through 2014, even if those policies don’t meet the law’s requirements.

“But is it true or false?” CNSNews.com asked.

“Oh, it’s absolutely a fact that if you had a plan that you wanted to keep, that met the standards, you could keep it,” Boxer said “If it was a junk plan and didn’t meet the standards, you couldn’t, but he’s about to fix it now.”

This is another lie! How in the world can these people continue claiming it’s a fact that Obama kept this promise? He lied to get the bill passed, anything after the fact, the website, the failed roll out, the shady regulations that force cancellations is irrelevant at this point. It certainly doesn’t hurt that the entire roll out has been an absolute disaster but it hides the very basic fact that this President committed fraud against the American people, the very people who pay for his wonderful new world.

Nixon lied about knowledge of the Watergate burglaries, he was caught on his own “Smoking Gun” secret tapes, the Supreme Court ordered the tapes released and eventually Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment.
Obama lied for five years, campaigned on a lie, passed an unpopular law on a lie, the regulations confirming his lie are written in the Federal Register for all to see. He knew, his people knew, his parties politicians knew, yet he gets a pass. Two journalist and one whisltleblower took Nixon down, that is all it will take for the Obama house of cards to fall, and we already have the “Smoking Gun” in the Federal Register. All we need are some journalist with some balls.