Saturday, October 3, 2009

Health Care Reform: Invoke the Commerce Clause!

The Commerce Clause has been invoked by Congress to regulate every conceivable type of behavior even when said behavior has nothing to do with interstate commerce. One of the original intents of the clause was to prohibit states from instituting protectionist tariffs and the like thereby hurting the national economy as a whole.

Right now if you live in Pennsylvania you cannot buy a cheaper insurance policy from a company in another state.  You can do this with your auto insurance, home owner's insurance, flood insurance, etc., but not your health insurance.  For all of this talk about choice and competition, you'd think that instead of just making something up Congress would remember the Constitution for once, use one of their enumerated powers, and enact a simple solution that would lower the cost of health insurance immediately:  Allow for the sale of health insurance policies across state lines!

This would greatly reduce health care costs and would literally not cost a single dime of taxpayer money.

1 comment:

  1. Please call your Reps, Senators, and Harry Reid and tell them you know what they are doing and we will NOT take it.

    Time is of the essence.
    They want this RAMMED through by next Thursday!

    http://animal-farm.us/change/your-getting-healthcare-in-the-end-657

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