What is the proper role of government? The powers enumerated to the federal government are 1) to protect the people’s rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and 2) to stick to its powers as defined in Article 1 Section 8.  Nowhere in the Constitution or primary founding documents do we find that government is to manage or regulate business.  The main idea of the Revolution was to get out from under the royal manager of the time, King George, and the yoke of bureaucratic regulations.

The tactic of taking the Constitution out of context is progressive. This tactic molded our static list of rules that the constitution was into the living, breathing document liberals want to believe it is. This tool allows progressives to promote their agenda of choice. The massive debt and burdensome regulations that we groan under are an example of the yoke of the “living, breathing” mindset.

Government intervention in health care has caused most of the problems within the health care industry. Now, we believe government interference like a Health Care Compact (HCC) will solve the problems? We should look to government to save us from government? It is time to break the chains by breaking this pattern of thinking.

The Health Care Compact seeks to soften the blow of Obamacare on the health care industry. The attempt to shift the power of regulation from the feds to the states, on the surface, seems noble and right. Many times what seems right is accompanied by unintended consequences that tend to nullify liberty. The HCC seeks to restore liberty to health care and health insurance, but this Compact will do the opposite of the HCC framers’ intent.

The HCC Bill states: 14 Whereas, the member states recognize that consent of congress 15 may be more easily secured if the member states collectively seek 16 consent through an interstate compact.

The authority for the Health Care Compact is taken from Article 1 Section 10 of our Constitution. This section puts restraints on the States. Section 10 gives the people the right not to have their state enter into a compact that might involve the nation in a war or conflict. The whole context of section 10 involves preventing the State from entangling the nation in any kind of war or conflict. Section 10 does not give the States authority to band together to regulate industries.

This restraint makes sense in the context of protecting the People’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The idea of states making compacts while vesting regulatory authority over an industry in the states is pure fascism. Pointing out the context of this HCC as unconstitutional is an understatement.

The Health Care Compact is an example of how a progressive would end run the Constitution under the guise of safety (from the federal government) and health (it’s for the children’s sake). Rather than “protecting individual liberty and personal control over health care decisions”, this unconstitutional authority places the control over personal health care in the hands of state legislatures.

Attempting to restore liberty using progressive tactics, serves only to legitimize the destruction of freedom and the documents designed to protect that freedom. When one is serious about protecting liberty from federal overreach, one abhors anything to do with the progressive mindset.

Another recent progressive attempt at altering our electoral college, The National Popular Vote, via state compact, raises another concern. Saul Anuzis and other GOP lobbyists spent quite some time “selling” this fraudulent idea to Michigan. Patriots probing into who was behind the compact were met with: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! Those brave enough to pull back the curtain revealed the progressive wizard himself: George Soros.

Which begs the question, “Who is behind the Health Care Compact?”

If the GOP does not keep its promise to fully repeal Obamacare, see the right remedy for Obamacare, click on the links below for more information.

Federal Health Care Nullification Act:  The following is Tenth Amendment Center approved legislation to nullify federal overreach into the health care industry. Activists, we encourage you to send this to your state senators and representatives – and ask them to introduce this legislation in your state.

Nullification: The Rightful Remedy

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While some states rejected Obama care and its federal funds, Michigan Republicans have accepted federal funds meant to implement Obama care. Despite the public outcry against Obama care, the Michigan Senate voted in December to set up the framework to implement Obama care in Michigan. Senate Bill 693 (Michigan Health Insurance Exchange) sets the stage for Snydercare: the Trojan Horse for Obama care. Vigilant patriots and conservative groups exposed this vote.

These same groups have lobbied to stop the House from carrying the Senate’s torch. It seems the House has stopped it. But, have they? Looking back to October 2011, the Michigan House passed House Bill 5014 that provides federal funding for state approved electronic health care record systems. Looking into the requirements for Obama care, e-records is a tool to lay a foundation for Obama care. “The 2009 Recovery Act, better known as the stimulus bill, set aside more than $20 billion for incentives to healthcare providers that deploy and meaningfully use certified electronic health records systems.”1 But, we are not to worry, it isn’t paid for by Obama care, only by Obama bucks.

According to Michigan Votes, House Bill 5014 “passed to appropriate an extra $320.4 million for two items. The first is $119 million that is nearly all federal money for a program to provide incentive payments to health care providers and facilities to adopt state-approved electronic health care record systems. The second appropriates the money from a new 1% tax on health insurance claims designed to ‘game’ the federal Medicaid system to get higher federal payments to Michigan’s welfare system.”2

So, the dirty little secret is out: MI Medicaid is broke. Despite the “Relentless Positive Action” spilling out of Lansing, Michigan still has serious debt and we depend on federal funding to cover our bills.

The Republican party platform states Republicans believe the key to real reform is to give control of the health care system to patients and their health care providers. You could have fooled me. Not only have we had to BEG the House to stop Snydercare, now they want a compact of states to have control over our health care. But, don’t worry, it’s a step in the right direction. Excuse me, it is a
step in the SAME direction: government control over an industry. “Vesting regulatory authority over health care in the states” and “states governing health care effectively” sounds like Obamanomics is here to stay in Michigan.

I wonder if MI Republicans share that the National GOP are preparing a bill to replace, not repeal, Obama care3? See article here. Similarly, the Health Care Compact that the MI House wants as an alternative to Obama care is an affront to tea party values of smaller government, lower taxes, and less regulation. (HB 4693 here.) But, hey, they have no problem violating their own platform so what should we expect? Not much in the way of policies that promote freedom and liberty.

We are exchanging control over our health care from the federal level to the state level. I do not want the state government to “govern” my healthcare any more than the feds. If tea party accepts this compact instead of real free market reforms, the free fall into socialized medicine is complete. When you lay down with dogs, don’t be surprised when you wake up with fleas.

The MI Senate didn’t want to bow down to the feds so passed SB 693. But, now we will bow down to a compact of states? Where is the free market in that? DC isn’t telling us what to do, but Chicago, Indianapolis, and Toledo can? Free market demands less regulation, less compacts, less dirty political deals. Where is the legislation repealing over-reaching regulation? Where is the resolution urging US Congressmen to push for interstate purchase of health insurance? Where is real torte reform?

There is only one compact our political elite need to grasp, and that is our liberty protecting Constitution which says the federal government cannot bully the states or its people. That power ultimately resides in the states which is the people. The loss of the free market and liberty will be complete unless Tea Party and liberty minded people do not allow Republicans to bamboozle them with legislation that mixes free market solutions and socialism.

Rise up, People!

1http://money.cnn.com, “National electronic health records network gets closer”, November 18, 2011.

2http://michiganvotes.org, 2011 House Bill 5014: Appropriations: Supplemental Budget.

3http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/235031-report-gop-preparing-bill-to-replace-obamacare

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