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LETTER TO THE EDITOR - HEALTH CARE PLAN

Government Health Care Plan

 

Dear Editor,

 

This is the first time in my life I have ever written a letter to the editor of any newspaper.  I am expressing to you today my concerns about the proposed Government Healthcare Plan.

 

Like many other Americans, I have left politics to the politicians expecting them to do their jobs guided and governed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights.   With the developments of the recent months I have the sincere belief that this is not the case. We have all witnessed the government takeover of banks, car companies, businesses, media, internet, and food production. And today, the proposed health coverage of Americans that I now speak up and write this letter to you. 

 

In speaking to others in my community, I have learned that the majority of these American taxpayers do not know what is being proposed. Not to mention how it will affect them. This is not unlike my position on politics just a few short months ago. I would have questioned the validity of the issues being talked about and most likely discarded them thinking that the person explaining them to me was going off the deep end.  

 

The issues that I would like you to list are all clearly written within the proposed bill that recently passed the House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate. Please list these major concerns with this bill as well as this question. Where is all the money going to come from to pay for such a massive plan when our Country is standing on the edge of financial collapse?

 

Once again, these are actual portions of the proposed healthcare bill.

 

Page 65:   "Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans 

(example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)"

 

Page 30:   A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get

(and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process)


Page 42:   The "Health Choices Commissioner" will decide health benefits for you.

(You will have no choice. None. )


Page 50:   All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services; at tax payers expense


Page 58:   Every person will be issued a National ID Health card.


Page 59:   The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts.

 

Page 95:   The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan. 


 Page 127:   The American Medical Association sold doctors out: 

(the government will set wages.)

 
 Page 126:   Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.


 Page 149:   Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll


 Page 150:   Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll


 Page 167:   Any individual who doesn't' have acceptable healthcare

(according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.  (what’s acceptable?)


 Page 170:   Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes

(Working Americans will pay for them).


 Page 195:   Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL Americans financial and personal records. 

( it’s in there!)

 

So ask yourself, with a proposed packaged of this magnitude (almost 2,000 pages) why did it have to be decided on in one week by The House of Representatives?  Did the people behind the bill write it in a week?  By the way, who did write this bill?  Should we dare to ask?   These are only a few excerpts of actual language of the proposed bill. This is our money they are spending no matter what rhetoric is spoken by the politicians. Shouldn’t we have a right to decide how it is used by our elected officials?  Or should we ask; do they have a right to takeover healthcare at all?

 

 

One thing is certainly factual about the current state of politics in America.

 

I, like many others, are waking up and paying attention to the developments in Washington D.C. Our concerns don’t seem to mean much to many of our elected officials regardless of party affiliation. Politics, as mentioned earlier, was left with the chosen representatives     “Of the People” and they were supposed to represent us to the best of there ability and with our best interest at heart.

 

I cannot help but think that our political system is in need of major overhaul and the “sleeping giant” that has the actual voice in America will be heard in 2010.

 

“Real change” is on the horizon.

 

Notwithstanding political correctness I dare to say; “May God Bless America.”

 

Frank Infante

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE HEALTH CARE BILLS

 

 

Note:  Michael Connelly of Carrollton , Texas  is a 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.
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.


Dear Editor:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.


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.
 
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.
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.
 
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.
 
For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they consult the source. Here is a link to the Constitution:

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

 

And another to the Bill of Rights: 

 

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html  

 

There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.

 

Michael Connelly

Retired Attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas
http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/
http://michaelconnelly.viviti.com/entries/general/the-truth-about-the-health-care-bills