Strike number two for Obamacare. And it wasn't pretty. Some brilliant and blistering quotes from the ruling Federal judge are inside.
By Dr. Pitchfork
Just to be clear, as DB has written before, our problem with Obamacare is the individual mandate, which is blatantly unconstitutional, and the egregious giveaways to Big Pharma & Big Insurance that are built into the law. It's a bad fix.
On the heels of judge Henry Hudson's recent ruling that the mandate is un-Constitutional, Obamacare was dealt another fatal blow this week when U.S. District Court judge Roger Vinson ruled that the ENTIRE BILL is un-Constitutional, arguing that the Commerce Clause does not give Congress the right to require citizens to purchase an insurance product, or anything else for that matter.
This is our favorite quote from Judge Vinson's 78-page ruling...
- "Congress could require that everyone above a certain income threshold buy a General Motors automobile -- now partially government-owned -- because those who do not buy GM cars (or those who buy foreign cars) are adversely impacting commerce and a taxpayer-subsidized business."
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare
PENSACOLA, Fla. – A federal judge declared the Obama administration's health care overhaul unconstitutional Monday, siding with 26 states that argued people cannot be required to buy health insurance.
Senior U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson agreed with the states that the new law violates people's rights by forcing them to buy health insurance by 2014 or face penalties. He went a step further than a previous ruling against the law, declaring the entire thing unconstitutional if the insurance requirement does not hold up.
Vinson, who was appointed to federal bench by Ronald Reagan in 1983, said it is, writing in his 78-page ruling that if the government can require people to buy health insurance, it could also regulate food the same way.
- "Or, as discussed during oral argument, Congress could require that people buy and consume broccoli at regular intervals," he wrote, "Not only because the required purchases will positively impact interstate commerce, but also because people who eat healthier tend to be healthier, and are thus more productive and put less of a strain on the health care system."
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More on Judge Vinson's decision from the WSJ...
ObamaCare Takes Another Licking
U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of Pensacola, Fla., minced no words in his decision yesterday that declared ObamaCare unconstitutional.
- "Never before has Congress required everyone buy a product from a private company (essentially for life) just for being alive and residing in the United States," wrote Judge Vinson. "It is difficult to imagine that a nation which began, at least in part, as the result of opposition to a British mandate giving the East India Company a monopoly and imposing a nominal tax on all tea sold in America would have set out to create a government with the power to force people to buy tea in the first place . . . Surely this is not what the Founding Fathers could have intended."
- "Then-Senator Obama supported a health-care reform proposal that did not include an individual mandate because he was at that time strongly opposed to the idea, stating that, 'If a mandate was the solution, we can try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody to buy a house,'" Judge Vinson wrote.
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We agree on the problems, but is this flowchart really the solution..?..
In August, Missouri voters voted 'NO' overwhelmingly on Obamacare. And in December, Federal Judge Henry Hudson ruled on the constitutionality of the individual mandate, the cornerstone of Obama's plan. As this graphic shows, the new law creates 68 grant programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, 6 regulatory systems, 6 compliance standards and 2 entitlements. What could possibly go wrong with something so-well organized?
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Now watch this...
Video: Paul Ryan vs. Obama
More detail...
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This is worth a look...