Comments on: On health care reform and the constitutionality of Medicare

By: Could the States Nullify a Public Option? « Submitted to a Candid World

Could the States Nullify a Public Option? « Submitted to a Candid World — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:31:57 +0000

[...] implications. If a public option violated the Tenth Amendment, Medicare probably would too, and good luck getting re-elected on that [...]

By: SWGA Politics » Blog Archive » Georgia Health Care Constitutional Amendment

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:28:44 +0000

[...] Hill), this one from the AJC’s Gold Dome Live blog (Aaron Gould Sheinin and others), and this one from AJC’s Political Insider blog (Jim Galloway) Tags: healthcare, Judson Hill, States’ [...]

By: dmac

dmac — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 16:14:48 +0000

The Republicans have acted stupidly, again.

As Constitutional expert, Professor Jonathon Turley of George Washington University pointed out; Hill’s use of the tenth amendment for the purpose of rejecting a law that doesn’t exist is absurd. Also, Turley says it’s nonsensical for Hill to seek to change Georgia’s constitution when he claims that the 10th amendment of the US constitution already gives Georgia the right to reject a federal health care program.

By: MBW

MBW — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:38:43 +0000

Hey Republicans— If you really hate government-run health care, why don’t you just grow a pair and unite behind a plan to eliminate Medicare???

Until you vote to eliminate Medicare, your ’socialist’ bull-sheet is just hypocritical garbage.

By: Will Jones - Atlanta

Will Jones - Atlanta — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:24:50 +0000

The same Mammon-worshippers who object to being a sovereign individual making up The People – E Pluribus Unum, recognizing that their dividend and bonus checks from the present system would be adversely affected by a single payer national healthcare system, like New Zealand’s or Canada’s, are part of the same faction which yet vainly considers taboo discussion of the proven treason of 9/11, committed by Bush and Cheney, or that Bush’s father and Nixon killed John Kennedy.

They are allergic to truth because their lives are lies.

Annuit Coeptis is Our Creed’s first Motto. America must do what is right and good. Those who openly admit their contempt for the lives of their less fortunate fellow Americans are honest, beneath contempt, and G-dless.

By: stands for decibels

stands for decibels — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:21:59 +0000

I know this is fatalistic and that life expectancy is increasing, but with the undeterminable time that I have, I would rather choose how I live than let the government decide.

You really don’t get that a government supplied health insurance program wouldn’t require you to choose a certain way to live, right? Has that not yet sunk in?

By: William K

William K — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:18:36 +0000

The problem is that no matter whether I spend everything I have on my healthcare or evrything I have on my neighbors healthcare, eventually all of us will still get sick and die. I know this is fatalistic and that life expectancy is increasing, but with the undeterminable time that I have, I would rather choose how I live than let the government decide.

By: retiredds

retiredds — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:59:17 +0000

William K, I guess all those Vets and Medicare folks don’t trust the government to provide their health care. Should they all back out, now, and go to a private insurer. OOOPS I forgot about pre-existing conditions.

By: retiredds

retiredds — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:41:21 +0000

I doubt it @ 8:42, your wallet is already open. Anyone who does not have insurance can go to an ER and be treated. Who do you think pays for that? So, what’s your point?

By: M Gates

M Gates — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:05:09 +0000

At the risk of sounding like a socialist, I support having a public insurance option. You won’t convince me that this will cost Americans more money, because I believe our nation is already paying for these health care services. We pay the taxes when we incarcerate our mentally ill. We pay higher medical costs to compensate for the uninsured heart attack victim. And we’re paying when Medicare or Medicaid kicks in to cover a grave illness that may have been avoided with accessible preventive care. A Public Option should be part of a larger reform bill. Unfortunately, Georgia’s elected member plan to pack up their marbles, and quit playing. Who’s whining now?