Clinton's Idea of Universal Health Care is Unconstitutional.
Gordon K. Glatz
February 07, 2008
This is the first time in the history of our great land that we have the possibility of a woman or black man as president. The question is can either one win in an honest election against a white male republican. Are the people of this country ready for the change? Have they seen what the past eight years of republican rule have brought to this country, or will prejudice cloud their judgement again? Are we going to be better off with a democrat in the white house?
In the past I have been an independent voting for who ever I felt was the best candidate. This time is different for I am not sure there is a better candidate. In a way the primary is more important than the actual election for the president, since it determines the choice we will have to vote for in the fall. So who ever wins the nomination for the democrat ticket must be able to beat the republican contender, and I don't believe Obama will be able to carry the democrats to victory. I believe Clinton has a better chance of winning, but I am not so sure about some of her intentions, and that is what this article is really all about.
Although she is probable the one I will vote for, I don't like her idea for Universal Health Care. Of course wanting something and getting it is a different thing. She must have the agreement of several hundred men, and woman in the house, and senate for it to be come law, and such a law would be unconstitutional if passed.
In this country when you reach the legal age of adulthood, you are suppose to have the rights granted by the constitution to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You can not in your pursuit do anything that infringes upon someone else's rights, and laws are passed to insure this. Though all laws must pass the test for constitutionality to be legal, there are some on the books that are not legal. Some of these that are not legal are, the wearing of motorcycle helmets, seat belts, and mandatory auto insurance. ( Covered in my other articles on these topics.) Now I am in no way preaching against safety, but against my right as an adult to choose, which is being taken away by these laws. They are saying in affect we will make you, if you will not do it.
To many parents their kids will always be their babies no matter how old they are, and they will try to dictate what they think is best for them, and this is reflected in laws that seem like a good idea, but if challenged would not meet the requirements of constitutionality. There had to be a point where we become responsible adults making our own decisions, and in our society for the most part it is eighteen, and for all twenty one years of age. Life is full of danger, and many people engage in activities that could result in their deaths. It is our life and we have that right to live as we choose, as long as we don't cause harm to some one else in our pursuits. We are not children and the government is not our mother to decide what is good for us and force us to comply or else.
I am retired on social security, and have no other income. It is not enough for me to live on by myself, so I must live with my son and depend on him making up the difference. I like so many others paid in to medicare, and I believed that when I retired it would take care of my medical expenses. I certainly did not expect to keep paying into Medicare from my Social Security, let a lone have to buy supplemental insurance to cover the cost of co-payments. When you subtract this from my Social Security it leaves much less to live on.
Now Mrs. Clinton's idea for Universal Health Care would force everyone to buy insurance whether they want to or not, and this is unconstitutional. All it does is insure that the doctors and hospitals get their outlandish payments, and plays in to the hands of the insurance companies adding to the hard ship of those who can not afford the cost. Insurance companies are gambling institutions, they are gambling that you will not file a claim. If you do, and the more you do the higher they raise your payments, so they don't lose a cent of their profit.
To Hillary I say if you want Universal Health Care the infrastructure is already in place with Medicare.
Heres How:
1) If you become president do something about keeping fingers out of Social Security and making it what it was originally intended to be. A trust for the people to use when they retire, and put back what was taken from the fund. Borrow means that it is suppose to be paid back.
2) If we can afford a needless war costing billions of dollars, we should be able to help our own citizens with health care.
3) Stop the war, and make more money available to Medicare.
4) Extend Medicare to cover those below the age of retirement that are below the middle class line, and can not afford to pay for their own health care or insurance.
5) Get rid of the co-payments, we can't pay the doctor $65 a visit anymore then we can pay a $25 co-payment.
6) Have medicare pay for regular check ups. A ounce of prevent is worth a pound of cure.
7) Include Eye glasses, hearing aids, and dentures on medicare. It cost $995 for a hearing aid, which retirees on Social Security can not afford to buy out of their own pockets.
I make these recommendations for the poor who are the majority of the people in this country, not the middle class and wealthy that can afford their own insurance.
Copyright February 2008 by Gordon K. Glatz
In the past I have been an independent voting for who ever I felt was the best candidate. This time is different for I am not sure there is a better candidate. In a way the primary is more important than the actual election for the president, since it determines the choice we will have to vote for in the fall. So who ever wins the nomination for the democrat ticket must be able to beat the republican contender, and I don't believe Obama will be able to carry the democrats to victory. I believe Clinton has a better chance of winning, but I am not so sure about some of her intentions, and that is what this article is really all about.
Although she is probable the one I will vote for, I don't like her idea for Universal Health Care. Of course wanting something and getting it is a different thing. She must have the agreement of several hundred men, and woman in the house, and senate for it to be come law, and such a law would be unconstitutional if passed.
In this country when you reach the legal age of adulthood, you are suppose to have the rights granted by the constitution to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You can not in your pursuit do anything that infringes upon someone else's rights, and laws are passed to insure this. Though all laws must pass the test for constitutionality to be legal, there are some on the books that are not legal. Some of these that are not legal are, the wearing of motorcycle helmets, seat belts, and mandatory auto insurance. ( Covered in my other articles on these topics.) Now I am in no way preaching against safety, but against my right as an adult to choose, which is being taken away by these laws. They are saying in affect we will make you, if you will not do it.
To many parents their kids will always be their babies no matter how old they are, and they will try to dictate what they think is best for them, and this is reflected in laws that seem like a good idea, but if challenged would not meet the requirements of constitutionality. There had to be a point where we become responsible adults making our own decisions, and in our society for the most part it is eighteen, and for all twenty one years of age. Life is full of danger, and many people engage in activities that could result in their deaths. It is our life and we have that right to live as we choose, as long as we don't cause harm to some one else in our pursuits. We are not children and the government is not our mother to decide what is good for us and force us to comply or else.
I am retired on social security, and have no other income. It is not enough for me to live on by myself, so I must live with my son and depend on him making up the difference. I like so many others paid in to medicare, and I believed that when I retired it would take care of my medical expenses. I certainly did not expect to keep paying into Medicare from my Social Security, let a lone have to buy supplemental insurance to cover the cost of co-payments. When you subtract this from my Social Security it leaves much less to live on.
Now Mrs. Clinton's idea for Universal Health Care would force everyone to buy insurance whether they want to or not, and this is unconstitutional. All it does is insure that the doctors and hospitals get their outlandish payments, and plays in to the hands of the insurance companies adding to the hard ship of those who can not afford the cost. Insurance companies are gambling institutions, they are gambling that you will not file a claim. If you do, and the more you do the higher they raise your payments, so they don't lose a cent of their profit.
To Hillary I say if you want Universal Health Care the infrastructure is already in place with Medicare.
Heres How:
1) If you become president do something about keeping fingers out of Social Security and making it what it was originally intended to be. A trust for the people to use when they retire, and put back what was taken from the fund. Borrow means that it is suppose to be paid back.
2) If we can afford a needless war costing billions of dollars, we should be able to help our own citizens with health care.
3) Stop the war, and make more money available to Medicare.
4) Extend Medicare to cover those below the age of retirement that are below the middle class line, and can not afford to pay for their own health care or insurance.
5) Get rid of the co-payments, we can't pay the doctor $65 a visit anymore then we can pay a $25 co-payment.
6) Have medicare pay for regular check ups. A ounce of prevent is worth a pound of cure.
7) Include Eye glasses, hearing aids, and dentures on medicare. It cost $995 for a hearing aid, which retirees on Social Security can not afford to buy out of their own pockets.
I make these recommendations for the poor who are the majority of the people in this country, not the middle class and wealthy that can afford their own insurance.
Copyright February 2008 by Gordon K. Glatz