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EDITOR:
While listening to the coverage on the upholding of Obamacare, a healthcare law so bad that Congress made sure it didn’t apply to them, I noticed something interesting that has the potential to be huge. By a large majority, I believe 7-2, the court said that the federal government could not use the threat of witholding some or all of a state’s Medicaid funding as a means of pressuring the state to expand its Medicaid as per Obamacare. If this principle is applied across the board the effect could be a sea change in the relationship between the states and the federal government. In defiance of the separation of power between the states and the federal government that the Founding Fathers had in mind when they wrote the Constitution the Feds in recent decades have used the threat of witholding state’s money to force the states to do things that the Feds could not legally force them to do. Standardizing speed limits, drinking ages, etc. are but a few examples. If this principle is broadly applied the states could regain a level of power and independence not seen in the living memory of the vast majority of voters.
GEORGE ALGER
Placerville
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Evelyn VeerkampJuly 03, 2012 - 6:20 am
Roberts switched views to uphold health care law @ http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57464549/roberts-switched-views-to-uphold-health-care-law/
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 03, 2012 - 6:55 am
This truly is bad law, and the Supreme Court decision is appalling. Describing it using conventional terminology such as liberal or conservative simply is not applicable. What could have brought the justices to inflict such a travesty upon the American people? Reportedly Chief Justice Roberts switched views to uphold the health care law. Why? Now, not only can we be forced to buy a product we don't want but also we can be punished for not doing so. The only thing certain is that when the insurance companies wrote this legislation it was NOT for the benefit of the American people.
Richard C WhiteJuly 03, 2012 - 7:12 am
Over all I think this is a good place to start. I am tired of the free riders getting their health care in the ER rooms at 5 times the cost of a normal DR's visit. I don't see this new "tax" as anything more or less than the Social Security Act from FDR. Government intervention is never what Americans want to experience , however we do have a health care crisis in this country and the ACA will result in lower health care premiums and allow indeviduals with pre exhisting conditions to get insurance at the same rate as everyone else. Plenty of flaws in this bill as in every bill but it is a place to start.
Tom GibneyJuly 03, 2012 - 8:19 am
Nancy Pelosi..."We have to pass the bill to find out whats in it" and oh boy won;t this be exciting....
Dink LaneJuly 03, 2012 - 11:07 am
So you are saying... 30 Million people don't need health care?..... I have a granddaughter with a skin disease.... Insurance refused to take her..... I have a son who has had Chemotherapy .... they won't take him.... after the law was passed... (He 25 now) I could add him and her mother could add Ava.... No one is asking for FREE health care.... They are asking so SOME.... Why is that WRONG?.... The rest of the HEALTH CARE HAS NOT BEEN PUT IN PLACE YET!.... How can you complain if you haven't been hurt????
gato pelonJuly 04, 2012 - 9:14 am
Truly a great ruling by the Supreme Court!! Who would have thought! The GOP TeaBaggers Republican Obstructionist did a good job of gutting Obamacare and still weren't happy. So now we going to get see what grows? The people win! HAPPY JULY 4 TO ALL!
Rolo TomassiJuly 04, 2012 - 12:01 pm
Yeah that darn government health care how can anyone stand it. I mean just look at Medicare it's not a federal government administered health care program right! Oh wait it is a government health care program administered by the federal government that keeps seniors out of bankruptcy and allows them dignity as they age. OK so if Obamacare is evil I guess all of you teabaggers want to get rid of Medicare. Oh wait 90% of the teabaggers are on Medicare and if they didn’t have it they would be bankrupt and not able to run around in tri cornered hats or go to town hall meetings and scream “keep the government out of my Medicare”. Yeah that darned federal government heath care it really sucks. Happy 4th of July.
SHJuly 05, 2012 - 12:12 pm
Amen, Evelyn. Why is it that anyone who opposes this is an evil teabagger? I am not a teabagger but I am strongly opposed to this. I totally agree that the healthcare system needs to be fixed - but but this is NOT the solution. Forcing me to purchase a product I DON'T want and then penalizing me if I don't is absolutely terrifying. What's next? Slippery slope, people.
Dink LaneJuly 05, 2012 - 1:43 pm
So, SH.... You don't have ANY Health Care at all... Not even Medicare..... And you swear you'll NEVER go to an emergency room where the other insurance companies + Hospitals pick up the bill for those that don't have any either? (Bet you don't have Car insurance either, right? Sure glad we aren't "forced" to buy that.)
Evelyn VeerkampJuly 05, 2012 - 2:00 pm
Car Insurance: I believe the primary reason we must have it is in case we inflict injury or loss upon SOMEONE ELSE.
Dink LaneJuly 05, 2012 - 4:36 pm
Don't forget the Banks..... They want their $$$ if you wreck the car....
Arnold LangeJuly 05, 2012 - 6:42 pm
I think when an uninsured person goes to the emergency room and racks up 10's of thousands of dollars in healthcare costs, they are inflicting "a loss" on those that carry insurance.
neo-lib watcherJuly 06, 2012 - 12:32 pm
These guys change their stripes depending on current political dogma. Right now it's "NO" to subsidizing poor and sick Americans but "YES" to subsidizing corporations. (Anyone care to count the ways American taxpayers have been subsidizing corporations?) It's just possible that if the global corporate vampires weren't pillaging left and right there would be fewer uninsured.
prime timeJuly 09, 2012 - 4:10 pm
Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare
Arnold LangeJuly 09, 2012 - 4:31 pm
Prime time: your source the daily caller, considered to be the conservative answer to huffington post. Additionally, the source for the underlying data(claim) is an anti- clinton/obama/healthcare reform activist group that calls itself nonpartison(but isn't). The claim that 83% of doctors are considering leaving their livelyhood is pure made up hogwash.
prime timeJuly 11, 2012 - 5:37 pm
Assn. of American Medical Colleges: Physician shortage projected to soar to more than 91,000 in a decade