"...or possibly up their ass."

no, they are denying colonoscopies to those over 75 ..................BT

Yep. Kudos...

Except that the federal Congress has no jurisdiction to pass anything regarding healthcare and any purchasable insurance related to it. Again, there is no enumerated power. The Interstate Commerce Clause only provides the feds with the oversight to ensure that the commerce and trade between the states is on a equal footing basis. It does not provide an authority to completely prevent such commerce.

State regulation of health care and related insurance is also not without limits. But to the point, it is a well known principle that the experimentation within each of the States is a fertile ground for the best solutions to compete and come forth for all the States to emulate based upon the results of success. The one size fits all approach of a central federal government denies this.

Healthcare is an industry like any other. It is provided by qualified individuals to willing paying patients that can comb a free market for the best service for their money. Government on any level has no role except where claims leading to proven crimes have damaged one citizen by another. Hence, it is and always has been with the State jurisdictions to establish certifications for providing services.

The reason to replace (at least with the right to buy coverage from any state) is that state regulation of health insurancee also produces very bad results -- and such a law, which is all about interstate commerce, would actually be constitutional.

The economics problem of public goods is not at all bogus. The fact that it applies to a small number of services that are essential to civilized life is what makes the existence of government necessary at all, in spite of the large negative externalities it nearly always brings.

What bothers me in the current debate of "Repeal and Replace" is the complete lack of the obvious question of - why replace? The federal government has no business in this at all. Just let the free market work its magic again. I.e., get out of the way!

And then what is this crap about not being able to purchase health insurance plans across state lines? What happened to the bonafide role of the federal government under the Interstate Commerce Cause intended to insure that commerce across the states is merely equitable? They've screwed that one up too.

Don't forget that government by nature has the power to tax, fine, imprison, or kill depending upon the degree of resistance that one gives to some law. The gun is always there when government is involved. So be careful about using government for more than the protection of individual rights of life, liberty, and property. All other use of government will infringe on those rights.

Clean drinking water has been the single biggest factor in health, no question.

And, now we will destroy the best healthcare in the world. We're already lagging. Look at the health of Americans. We're a mess. If it weren't for our (relatively) clean drinking water most of us probably wouldn't even be around to read this...

I don't really think that, in the end, it will do any
good to explain and prove until you're blue in the face why government health care won't work, why it is inefficient, etc., without any reference to individual rights, and that that is why the government should not be involved in it.

That article makes many good points.

"Ve shall see." -- Grandpa Sherman

I think we've already had Obamacare put where the sun don't shine in a most intrusive and forceful manner. The question is whether - like a cancerous lump - we remove it before it metastasizes and brings down the entire system.

Not to beat a dead horse, but, that works with almost everythin except healthcare. True, however, if Mrs. Clinkton had won, Obamacare would have been shoved down their throats -- or possibly up their ass.

basic reason....it violates the right to life, liberty, and the product of one's life...which outside the preamble of govt...it is univeral...ref: Hobbes, and Locke...natural law...

Yes, but with KENO there is still some random element. They've manipulated the machine itself for a more favorable outcome...

I realize that being a politician means, in most cases, the desire for power and wealth. Doing it through controlling healthcare is such a gamble and so complicated that they might as well be playing KEENO. Hence, enter stupidity.

Correct. Healthcare is not an enumerated power. For over 150 years we got along just fine and created the best healthcare industry in the world. A Tenth Amendment issue.

I have a simpler reason why government should not be involved in healthcare...our Constitution does not allow for it.

It isn't about intelligence per se, but power. Those who gravitate towards seeking power seek to enhance their sphere of power. And you can't get much more controlling than healthcare.

Congress in cahoots with the executive has a habit of doing stupid things. Running the healthcare system ranks right up there as one of the stupidest.

Government should stay out of healthcare for moral reasons first, and also because they cant possibly be efficient at it secondly. There is no competition in government, so it will never be better.

Yes, completely simplifies it, very good points..

how about it is none of the business of OUR employees to tell us anything about how we individually should take care of our selves. of course they just like to interfere in other peoples lives. hell of a way to live.

This spells it out very plainly in way anyone can understand.