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Michael Connelly
The New Pelosi Version of HR3200
November 5, 2009
When I first read HR 3200 in its entirety several months
ago I was appalled at the blatant disregard in the bill of the basic
tenets of our Constitutional form of government. However, I
underestimated what is actually being done to us. The newest version of
HR 3200 that has been labeled
the Pelosi Bill is the original bill on steroids. It is the most “in
your face” challenge to the American people as a whole that has ever
occurred. While Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and President Obama continue
to reassure the American people about what the bill will do, the proof
is there in black and white.
We are about to lose our Republic because this latest
version of HR 3200 takes away our freedom to make our own choices in
areas such as what type of insurance we want to have, (if any), how much
we are willing and able to pay for insurance, which doctors we choose to
take care of us, and what type of treatment we can choose based on our
doctor’s recommendations. All of these decisions will now be made by
federal bureaucrats in Washington who don’t know us and don’t care about
us as individuals.
These decisions will be made by the Secretary of Health
and Human Services based on the recommendations of an advisory panel
chaired by the Surgeon General, who is appointed by the President, and
made up of nine members who are not Federal employees or officers that
are also appointed by the President. There are nine more members who are
not Federal employees or officers who are appointed by the Comptroller
General of the United States and there will also be up to eight more
members who are Federal employees or officers and are appointed by
Obama. How’s that for a stacked deck? That’s like having a task force in
the Justice Department dedicated to fighting organized crime made up of
a majority of members of the Russian Mafia.
By the way, if you are wondering how many medical
professionals are required to be members of this advisory panel that
will decide on the type of healthcare you can get, the answer is none.
The previous version of the bill required at least one, but apparently
it was decided by Pelosi et.al. that this was one too many. Section 223
of the Bill on page 111 lays it all out if you care to read it.
In addition, everything I mentioned in my first article
on HR 3200 is still there although additional attempts have been made to
hide them. For example, there will be rationing of health care, programs
for seniors will be drastically cut, and there will be programs
available for illegal aliens since all they have to show is that they
are “residents” of the United States. There will also be instant access
available to your medical and financial records under the provisions of
Section 1173A on page 76.
There are also numerous new taxes being imposed to pay
for all of this and of course there are the fines that are imposed on
people who don’t get health either health insurance or government
approved health insurance. (These are incorrectly called taxes in the
bill because if they were labeled as fines people would be entitled to
protection under the due process clause of the 5th Amendment
to the Constitution. This is something that the Congress is seeking to
avoid.) Here is the link to
the entire bill.
There is absolutely nothing in the Constitution in
Article 1, Section 9 that grants the Congress the right to strip the
states and individuals of the United States of their rights and powers
in this area. There are no Supreme Court decisions that authorize it
either under the commerce clause or the General Welfare Clause of that
article. Yet, when asked about the Constitutionality of the law Nancy
Pelosi’s response was “Are you Serious?” In other words, we are all
idiots and only the new aristocracy made up of the all the President’s
appointees and the members of Congress is capable of knowing what I best
for us.
The bottom line is that this alleged health care bill
and a number of other bills in Congress are designed to establish a form
of government that is even worse than the one the Constitution was
designed to protect us from. I, for one, am getting fed up. This bill
and others pending in Congress, as well as regulations being proposed by
the “Czars”, will strip us of our Constitutional rights in a number of
areas. We will no longer be “citizens” of the United States, but will be
“subjects” of another nation entirely. It is time that the members of
Congress are told in emphatic terms that if they won’t abide by their
oath of office to “support the Constitution” we see no reason for them
to keep their jobs.
Tell them now! We are free citizens of a Republic and
will never stand for being anything less! I personally hereby re-affirm
the Declaration of Independence from Tyranny made by my forefathers and
for which members of my family have fought for in every war from the
American Revolution to today. I can say it best by taking the same oath
that was taken by the signers of the Declaration in 1776.
“And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”
Who will join me?
About
Michael Connelly
Mr.
Connelly is a retired attorney and Constitutional Law instructor
residing in Northeast Texas. He maintains a
website here. He is the author
of
"The
Mortarmen" a book about WWII;
"Riders in the Sky: The Ghosts and
Legends of Philmont Scout Ranch";
and "Amayehli:
A Story of America" |
