Comments on: Pelosi Plan Would Give Health Czar Super Powers http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:29:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Morning Bell: A Six-Hour Infomercial Can’t Save Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-87610 Morning Bell: A Six-Hour Infomercial Can’t Save Obamacare | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News. Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:54:28 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-87610 [...] purchase health insurance cross state lines. The problem is the President’s plan also gives czar-like powers to unaccountable federal bureaucrats to decide what does and does not qualify as health insurance [...] [...] purchase health insurance cross state lines. The problem is the President’s plan also gives czar-like powers to unaccountable federal bureaucrats to decide what does and does not qualify as health insurance [...]

]]> By: U.S. House Votes in Favor of Obamacare | Conservative Principles Now http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-67955 U.S. House Votes in Favor of Obamacare | Conservative Principles Now Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:41:17 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-67955 [...] bill would create massive bureaucracy. Under the bill, the new health care commissioner would in fact become a health care czar. This bureaucrat would exercise unprecedented power over the kinds of benefits and medical services [...] [...] bill would create massive bureaucracy. Under the bill, the new health care commissioner would in fact become a health care czar. This bureaucrat would exercise unprecedented power over the kinds of benefits and medical services [...]

]]> By: U.S. House Votes in Favor of Obamacare : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-66792 U.S. House Votes in Favor of Obamacare : Conservative Blog: Urban Conservative 2.0 – Conservative News & Politics Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:47:33 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-66792 [...] bill would create massive bureaucracy. Under the bill, the new health care commissioner would in fact become a health care czar. This bureaucrat would exercise unprecedented power over the kinds of benefits and medical services [...] [...] bill would create massive bureaucracy. Under the bill, the new health care commissioner would in fact become a health care czar. This bureaucrat would exercise unprecedented power over the kinds of benefits and medical services [...]

]]> By: On “Health Care Reform” « Pond’rings http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65791 On “Health Care Reform” « Pond’rings Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:00:16 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65791 [...] But it’s not just the costs that are disturbing. It’s the government power grab, too. An unelected bureaucrat would be given czar-like control over our lives, our health, and our pocketbooks. Even super powers. This new all-powerful “health choices commissioner” would be entrusted with more power than most superheroes. The laundry list of that special power is proof that it’s a government takeover of health care. This presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies are to operate, by creating the standards for their coverage and enforcing compliance. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to super-czar. -The Foundry [...] [...] But it’s not just the costs that are disturbing. It’s the government power grab, too. An unelected bureaucrat would be given czar-like control over our lives, our health, and our pocketbooks. Even super powers. This new all-powerful “health choices commissioner” would be entrusted with more power than most superheroes. The laundry list of that special power is proof that it’s a government takeover of health care. This presidential appointee will both control the new government-run insurance plan AND decide how private insurance companies are to operate, by creating the standards for their coverage and enforcing compliance. Likewise, employer-run health plans would answer to super-czar. -The Foundry [...]

]]> By: Freedom of Speech TX http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65707 Freedom of Speech TX Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:32:44 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65707 Dear Kate, Watkinsville, Some things said are "tongue in cheek". Easy girl! Dear Kate, Watkinsville,

Some things said are "tongue in cheek".

Easy girl!

]]> By: Linda Hardoin, Sacra http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65294 Linda Hardoin, Sacra Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:12:35 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65294 I will go for their plan when all of Congress and the President and past Presidents are required to have the same insurance plan.....no exceptions. I am a Federal Govt worker and I do not have what they seem to think I have. By the way my hospital insurance is going up 8.8% in 2010. I am one person and pay $64.05 every two weeks. I will go for their plan when all of Congress and the President and past Presidents are required to have the same insurance plan…..no exceptions. I am a Federal Govt worker and I do not have what they seem to think I have. By the way my hospital insurance is going up 8.8% in 2010. I am one person and pay $64.05 every two weeks.

]]> By: Robert L. Kantor, MD http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65274 Robert L. Kantor, MD Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:45:28 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65274 The adminstration talks about medical care being chosen on "time proven results." If we have "concerns" about the government controlling health care, we can apply the same rule "results" i.e. Post office, Medicare, Medicaid, And now we are going to give it to a "Czar?" How scary? The adminstration talks about medical care being chosen on "time proven results."

If we have "concerns" about the government controlling health care, we can apply the same rule "results" i.e. Post office, Medicare, Medicaid,

And now we are going to give it to a "Czar?" How scary?

]]> By: frances r. campbell http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65262 frances r. campbell Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:31:08 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65262 Pelosi et al are dismantling the greatest health care delivery system in the modern world. Once dismantled–cannot be put back together. Why o why do they not legislate this bill in several sections over time? Why no torte reform–why no sales of ins. Across state lines,. Why sweetheart deals with big pharma? We already have socialized the program for children.. The politicos want the kiddies to get used to free govt. Care. The cut off for the kiddies free care –their parents have to make over 84,000.00 bucks a year. Can anyone explain why folks making under that amount cannot pay for their own kids ins.? It is just easier for the folks now to get a 70 inch plasma tv and other electronics–but the gods of socialism will smile down on all of this nonsense. We will be like england where if you are elderly and have poor leg circulation–they just amputate rather than spend the money on the old folks to fix the legs and i am not speaking about someoune who has developed gangrene where an amputation would be necessary. For the first time in my life– iam frightened for my country, my countrymen and myself. I am too old to go out and earn it over again and i fear we will end up like the elderly in china under mao and soilant green. Will they grind us up and feed us to the chickens? Pelosi et al are dismantling the greatest health care delivery system in the modern world. Once dismantled–cannot be put back together. Why o why do they not legislate this bill in several sections over time? Why no torte reform–why no sales of ins. Across state lines,. Why sweetheart deals with big pharma? We already have socialized the program for children.. The politicos want the kiddies to get used to free govt. Care. The cut off for the kiddies free care –their parents have to make over 84,000.00 bucks a year. Can anyone explain why folks making under that amount cannot pay for their own kids ins.? It is just easier for the folks now to get a 70 inch plasma tv and other electronics–but the gods of socialism will smile down on all of this nonsense. We will be like england where if you are elderly and have poor leg circulation–they just amputate rather than spend the money on the old folks to fix the legs and i am not speaking about someoune who has developed gangrene where an amputation would be necessary. For the first time in my life– iam frightened for my country, my countrymen and myself. I am too old to go out and earn it over again and i fear we will end up like the elderly in china under mao and soilant green. Will they grind us up and feed us to the chickens?

]]> By: B. Johnson, USA http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65213 B. Johnson, USA Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:12:05 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65213 With all due respect to the Heritage Foundation, why aren't conservative blogs emphasizing the following MAJOR constitutional problem with Nancy Pelosi's misguided plan for a health czar? Given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for such things to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress. In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes. "Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html" rel="nofollow">http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html</a> So not only is misguided Obama's proposed healthcare constitutionally unauthorized, but based on Justice Marshall's official words, Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund such a program in the first place. Getting back to Nancy Pelosi's health czar, again, just as with constitutionally unauthorized Obamacare, why aren't conservative blogs emphasizing that Nancy Pelosi has no constitutional authority to implement her misguided health czar plan? What's going on with Constitution-ignoring "leaders" like Pelosi is the following, IMO. State sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by illegal Obamacare. In fact, the following link should help give people an idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments. <a href="http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792" rel="nofollow">http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199...</a> Finally, the next time that somebody gets an opportunity to publicly ask Pelosi questions about the constitutionality of things like a health czar, instead of giving her an opportunity to side-step the issue by merely asking her if such ideas are constitutional, please ask her the following. Ask her why she should not be charged with treason for promoting federal legislation based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers. With all due respect to the Heritage Foundation, why aren't conservative blogs emphasizing the following MAJOR constitutional problem with Nancy Pelosi's misguided plan for a health czar?

Given the federal Constitution is silent about public healthcare, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for such things to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.

In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

So not only is misguided Obama's proposed healthcare constitutionally unauthorized, but based on Justice Marshall's official words, Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund such a program in the first place.

Getting back to Nancy Pelosi's health czar, again, just as with constitutionally unauthorized Obamacare, why aren't conservative blogs emphasizing that Nancy Pelosi has no constitutional authority to implement her misguided health czar plan?

What's going on with Constitution-ignoring "leaders" like Pelosi is the following, IMO. State sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives as evidenced by illegal Obamacare.

In fact, the following link should help give people an idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199…

Finally, the next time that somebody gets an opportunity to publicly ask Pelosi questions about the constitutionality of things like a health czar, instead of giving her an opportunity to side-step the issue by merely asking her if such ideas are constitutional, please ask her the following. Ask her why she should not be charged with treason for promoting federal legislation based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers.

]]> By: JM Hanes http://blog.heritage.org/2009/10/30/pelosi-plan-would-give-health-czar-super-powers/#comment-65201 JM Hanes Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:03:31 +0000 http://www.foundry.org/?p=18775#comment-65201 I assume we are now talking about HR 3962. For those of us wading through the actual bill, it would be really helpful to have a citation to the specific Section(s) under discussion! I assume we are now talking about HR 3962. For those of us wading through the actual bill, it would be really helpful to have a citation to the specific Section(s) under discussion!

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