Posted by conundrum on March 22, 2010, at 22:26:26 [reposted on March 23, 2010, at 1:06:01 | original URL]
In reply to explain to me why its a bummer i havent got a clue (nm), posted by manic666 on March 22, 2010, at 9:24:58
In the United States we have a Bill of Rights to our constitution which provides certain rights to the states in the 10th amendment. This bill could be determined to be encroaching in states rights. It would be like the EU regulating health for all EU member states. The states of the U.S. are supposed to be much more autonomous than say the federal states of Germany.
Also the government is going to force people to buy healthcare. It really doesn't matter what you do in Europe. Its sounds pretty much unconstitutional and if we can just go against the law of land then we can just do whatever we want. The only thing I can think of similar is that the states require us to purchase car insurance. But thats the states not the federal government. I have a feeling some of the things in this bill will be found unconstitutional. Not to say that they are bad ideas, but they might contradict the current law of the land.
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