Gallup recently completed a poll which is the most damning evidence that ObamaCare is on the wrong track. 72% of all Americans and an astonishing 56% of Democrats say the mandate for coverage is unconstitutional. During the debate, the same numbers were expressed by the public, however, those who know better (Democratic legislators) told us to go mind out own business! Now that the law is partially in effect, we see the same disagreement with the program.
Now for the big question--will the Supreme Court see it the same way? Will it be a larger margin than the normal 5-4 split? Will we see an 8-1? (Justice Elana Kagan will probably vote for the program regardless of who else votes with her as she was instrumental as the President's lawyer (Solicitor General) to push the law through Congress).
It is obvious to us that the public understands the damage this mandate will cause. If the Supreme Court decrees that this law is legal, where will it take us? Will we be mandated to buy a certain car, a certain soap, or any other product the Administration deems to be in our best interests? That our friends, is not freedom!
We still believe in the United States and its superior governmental system, however, this election and as far as this article goes, this decision is pivotal. Should the decision go against the public, we will never recover from it as it will open the floodgates of governmental mandates and requirements. Let's pray that does not happen.
Conservative Tom
Now for the big question--will the Supreme Court see it the same way? Will it be a larger margin than the normal 5-4 split? Will we see an 8-1? (Justice Elana Kagan will probably vote for the program regardless of who else votes with her as she was instrumental as the President's lawyer (Solicitor General) to push the law through Congress).
It is obvious to us that the public understands the damage this mandate will cause. If the Supreme Court decrees that this law is legal, where will it take us? Will we be mandated to buy a certain car, a certain soap, or any other product the Administration deems to be in our best interests? That our friends, is not freedom!
We still believe in the United States and its superior governmental system, however, this election and as far as this article goes, this decision is pivotal. Should the decision go against the public, we will never recover from it as it will open the floodgates of governmental mandates and requirements. Let's pray that does not happen.
Conservative Tom
Gallup: 72% of All Americans and 56% of Democrats Say Obamacare Mandate Unconstitutional
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and President Barack Obama at the White House on Feb. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
(CNSNews.com)- Seventy-two percent of American adults and 56 percent of self-professed Democrats say that the provision in the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama that requires individuals to purchase health insurance or pay a fine is unconstitutional, says theGallup Poll.
In March, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear cases challenging the constitutionality of the mandate.
Among Republicans, according to the poll, 94 percent say the mandate is unconstitutional and 6 percent say it constitutional. Among Independents, 70 percent say it is unconstitutional and 21 percent say it is constitutional. In contrast to the 56 percent of Democrats who say the mandate is unconstitutional, only 37 percent say it is constitutional.
Gallup also asked survey respondents whether they strongly favor, favor, oppose or strongly oppose repealing the health-care law if a Republican president is elected this fall. A plurality of 47 percent favored repealing the law, including 26 percent who said they strongly favored repeal and 21 percent who said they favor it. Forty-four percent said they oppose repealing the law, including 20 percent who said they strongly favor repeal and 24 percent you said they favor it.
Among Republicans, 87 percent said they favor repealing the health-care law, including 56 percent who said they strongly favor repeal and 31 percent who said they favor it. Among Democrats, 77 percent said they oppose repeal, including 39 percent who said the strongly oppose repeal and 38 percent who said the oppose it.
Gallup also asked the survey respondents if they believed that the health-care law in the long-run make their family's health-care situation better, not much different or worse. Seventy-two percent said it would not make much difference (34 percent) or make things worse (38 percent).
Only 24 percent told Gallup they thought the health-care law would make their family's health-care situation better.
The survey polled 1,040 American adults Feb. 20-21
The average American couldn't come close to answering the question, "How does the commerce clause of the constitution relate to the constitutionality of the ACA?"
ReplyDeleteI cannot understand why anybody would want to go back to being at the total mercy of the health insurance companies where they can deny coverage for pre-existing conditions, cancel your insurance when you get sick, raise your premium 30% in one year to force you out of coverage. This is why 50 million people in this country have no health insurance and the rest of us are paying for them when they show up at the emergency rooms for health care.
It also explains why the United States has a per capita healthcare cost that is DOUBLE any of the countries that have single-payer, and yet we have WORSE outcomes (by the time the uninsured person shows up at the emergency room he often has a very serious/expensive health issue that could have been treated more effectively at less cost if he had annual checkups paid by insurance).
We disagree on the the cost savings of ACA projected by CBO and other independent analysts. That's okay. Just compare our privatized system to the health care costs of any other OECD country. Or compare average costs to veterans receiving care through the VA. Government health care is less costly than insurance through for-profit private health insurance companies. And as far as the argument about "don't let a bureaucrat get between you and your doctor", I fought for years with United HealthCare bureaucrats getting between me and my doctor and fighting to pay legitimate claims.
Read this article. It give that statistics on how horrible our privatized health care system is working compared to other countries -- from both a cost and effectiveness standpoint...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rose-ann-demoro/supreme-court-health-care_b_1299807.html
The critics of the ACA are shills for the insurance industry, or members of the general population who have been duped by misinformation about what is actually in the law. That is proven by other polls that show people generally favor the reforms in the ACA when they are presented as separate survey questions.
--David
The article quoted is written by a flak for the administration, a union hack. You can find better sources!
ReplyDeleteAs far as the commerce clause, it does not allow the government to
Insist that everyone buy a product, rather it speaks to commerce between states. For example, Michigan cannot charge a tariff on products or services from ohio.(although, we should charge their football team for impersonating opposition!
If Obamacare becomes the law of the land, would you like driving a Chevy Volt
as you will be be required to buy one so that GM can pay back us.
or you will be required to have a bank account with bank that received money from the government. Not pretty.
The statistics cited in the article were not derived from research done by the "hack." They are done by independent studies.
ReplyDeleteSources cited in the article include:
> The Commonwealth Fund
> Gallup (same as your source!)
> University of Washington
> World Health Organization
> California Dept. of Health
> The Joint Commission
None of these are "flaks" for the Obama administration.
In short, there is a mountain of comparative data from OECD and many other researchers around the world to document that the U.S. health care system is far more costly and less effective than countries with universal health care. We can't change it, because the health insurance industry is one of the most powerful lobby groups in Washington.
I find it remarkable that the same people who complain about "free-loaders" in other contexts are perfectly willing to subsidize the health care of those who could afford to buy insurance but instead use the emergency room for all their health needs and stick us with the the costs.
--David
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