HEALTH CARE BILL HAS BEEN READ BY CONSTITUTIONAL ATTORNEY

The Truth About the Health Care Bills 

 Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney



Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House
Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied
it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional
law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were
being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse
than what I had heard or expected.
To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its
implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media
are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care,
particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are
involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion
services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of
the medical profession.



The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of
business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions
about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal
bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals.
Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of
necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the
government.



However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In
fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention
of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a
convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the
Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been
contemplated If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions
of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been
destroyed.



The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power
between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S.
Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama
Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives
of the American people, and the businesses they own.



The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate
in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text
of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members
of Congress to regulate health care.



This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the
Obama administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct
violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the
Constitution information, your personal financial information, and the
information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is
a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also
forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into
oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide...



If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private
insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices
Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you.
It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid
application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However,
that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that
allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is
definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of
law.



So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate
so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are
effectively nullified by this law It doesn't stop there though.



The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution,
of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others
retained by the people;



The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the
provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people
nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many
areas that once were theirs to control.



I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you
get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power
and limiting rights... Article 6 of the Constitution requires the
members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation
to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would
not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without
feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted
for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me
accountable.



For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they
consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you
can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.



Michael Connelly



Retired attorney,



Constitutional Law Instructor



Carrollton , Texas