May state legislative applications limit an Article V convention? Subject, yes; specific language, probably not
- September 12, 2013
Can ObamaCare be moral when it arbitrarily subsidizes some ways of buying insurance more than others, forces less wealthy people to subsidize insurance for more wealthy people, and “Takes from people who use tanning salons and people who need crutches and wheelchairs and pacemakers and gives to … well …. who knows?”
READ MOREIlya Somin of George Mason School of Law says that the recent appellate court decision finding the individual mandate constitutional undermines federalism, misconstrues the boundaries of congressional authority, and lays the groundwork for limitless federal mandates
READ MOREObamaCare threatens the solvency of private health plans, which will significantly reduce consumer choice and increase costs. …[In] Colorado, where one large health plan has already announced plans to leave the state, Graham’s analysis demonstrates a “cascade” of insolvency, whereby only five of the ten largest plans in 2009 will be operating in 2017.
READ MOREIn the 1930s, the USSR forced independent farmers into large state-run collective farms. … these collective farms could not feed the country. … Unfortunately, the United States is about to make the same mistake in health care by collectivizing doctors and hospitals into government-supervised accountable care organizations (ACOs).
READ MOREAccountable Care Organizations “will become the medical equivalent of the state-run giant collective farms that failed to feed the USSR. Central planning will strangle innovation in American medicine just as it strangled the Eastern Bloc economies during the Cold War.”
READ MOREJohn Goodman describes how Sam’s Club and Walmart offer free health screenings, blood pressure tests, cholesterol tests, etc., the health control bill (HR 3590) will make these obsolete by requiring all health plans to cover such services, and requiring us to pay for them.
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