Obamacare Is Effectively Abolished
by James Buchanan
For years, I’ve been telling people to be optimistic. The enemy is not all powerful and we can defeat them on a variety of issues. The latest victory doesn’t come from Congress, where the Tea Party just gained an impressive foothold. It comes from a federal court and a federal judge, who actually has some respect for the US Constitution.
A recent news article reports “A federal judge in Florida struck down President Barack Obama’s landmark healthcare overhaul as unconstitutional on Monday in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so-called individual mandate went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty. ‘Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire act must be declared void,’ he wrote, ‘This has been a difficult decision to reach and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications.’ Referring to a key provision in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Vinson sided with governors and attorneys general from 26 U.S. states, almost all of whom are Republicans, in declaring the Obama healthcare reform unconstitutional.”
A Washington Times article notes “Obamacare is unconstitutional. Everybody seems to understand that except Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama. Yesterday, Florida federal district Judge C. Roger Vinson became the second jurist to rule Congress has no authority to force Americans to buy a particular product such as health insurance. When that was suggested last year to then-Speaker Pelosi, she incredulously asked, ‘Are you serious?’ Liberals sneered at the notion that the Constitution imposes any limits on congressional power or that the old document is even relevant….. This overreach parallels ongoing encroachments into what should be private matters. Yesterday, stricter ‘dietary guidelines’ were issued for future government-run food programs. As bureaucrats take control of more food distribution and expand school offerings to cover three meals a day, these regulations will affect more Americans. New Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan refused during a confirmation hearing to say Congress lacks power to mandate what foods we eat. Judge Vinson‘s decision insisted the federal government does not possess such unlimited powers. The Constitution draws lines by enumerating certain powers for the feds while reserving other authority to the states or the people. Obamacare’s mandate doesn’t lie within those enumerated powers. Because Democratic leaders argued the mandate ‘is essential to the Act’s comprehensive scheme’ and ‘necessary to make the other regulations in the Act effective,’ the judge ruled that if the mandate falls, so does the whole law. With similar decisions coming out of federal courts in Florida and Virginia, the Supreme Court has a solid legal record from which to draw. It should allow these challenges to skip intermediate appeals courts, take these cases on an expedited basis and strike down Obamacare.”
Basically, Obamacare is dead right now. The liberals won’t be able to force taxpaying Americans into shelling out $1,000 per month for health care insurance, that may not even pay out when they need it most. We all know that Obamacare would have favored the masses of invading Latinos, who currently use emergency rooms as their HMOs. One hospital after another has gone bankrupt in cities with large Latino populations. The liberals don’t want us to associate Latinos with a crippling financial burden so they came up with “Obamacare” which was supposed to give us the illusion of having state health care, only the responsible people (meaning the Whites) would be plundered to pay for it. The huge windfall of money would be used to prevent more hospitals from being driven bankrupt by Latinos, covering up one of the biggest costs of illegal immigration.
If you couldn’t pay for the newly mandated health care, the Obama regime was going to “generously” let you get away with a $1,900 fine every year –which assumes that all the people who couldn’t shell out $1,000 per month for crappy HMO-type health insurance, will have an extra $1,900 laying around they can give to the insatiable federal black hole.
So our first Black president’s only major accomplishment has been rendered null and void by the US Constitution. Hopefully, some brave new Congressmen will step forward and make an issue out of the Constitutional requirement that the president be a natural born US citizen. Then perhaps we can render’s Obama’s entire presidency null and void as well.
