Texas Tenth Amendment Center
Thank you Representative Paxton! I am happy to see this coming from my own representative. From the office of Representative Paxton:
Texas Response to the Passage of the
Federal Health Care Legislation
Following the passage of H.R. 3590, “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” by the U.S. House of Representatives, I am drafting legislation to reject this overreaching bill due to its impact and costs to our State and to Texas taxpayers. I will file this legislation at the first opportunity for consideration next legislative session, which will begin in January 2011. We must be ready to reject federal takeover of our healthcare system.
The legislation I am currently drafting will be titled, “The Texas Health Freedom Act.” This Act will declare that the public policy of the State of Texas is to exercise sovereign power providing for the rights of Texas residents to choose their own health insurance plan freely without imposition or threat of penalties from the federal or state government. Additionally, this Act gives the Attorney General the express duty to protect the rights and property of the residents of Texans with respect to federal mandates. This bill is modeled after the constitutional amendment that passed in Arizona (HCR 2014) in 2009 and the bill that was signed into law in Idaho (HR 391) on March 17, 2010.
I have also joined with my colleagues in the Texas Conservative Coalition to support Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s efforts to scrutinize the federal health care bill for constitutional problems, such as reviewing the mandate that requires all individuals to purchase health insurance coverage to determine if it violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, the special treatment given to certain states in the legislation violates the “fundamental principles of nondiscrimination that are at the heart of the U.S. Constitution.”
As a general policy matter, the health care reform legislation is wrong for Texas because it will result in health care rationing, higher taxes, massive increases in federal and state spending and increased health care bureaucracy. The most insidious features of the legislation include the following:
These changes would place the federal government at the center of our nation’s health care system at the expense of individual choice and liberty, free enterprise and competition. Texans deserve better, and I will continue to fight to protect our State’s sovereignty and the freedoms of our citizenry.
Brian Roberts is a long-time volunteer with the Texas TAC and a regular contributor to the Tenth Amendment Center website.
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Good news! I would add to Mr. Paxton's list of the "most insidious features" the simple fact that the Constitution gives Congress no authority whatsoever over our health care options and decisions, so in its entirety the bill is illegal.
I concur fully.
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I will know, many thanks for the information. A joke for you! Why did the hubcap fall asleep? Because it was tired. vigera
herbal work
One of many things that concerns me is that we will all be paying for federally funded abortions. Will Paxton's Bill protect us from that tax? Will Paxton's Bill stop the federal government from collecting the tax for funding abortions?
We need to target and get the Rhinos on board before Perry will call a special session. If your Rep and/or Senator is a Rhino get after them now so we can act as a state to kill this Socialist-Democrat health care fiasco at birth.
passage from a 1795 Supreme Court ruling:
"No man would become a member of a community in which he could not enjoy the fruits of his honest labor and industry. The preservation of property, then, is a primary object of the social compact….The legislature, therefore, had no authority to make an act divesting one citizen of his freehold, and vesting it in another, without a just compensation. It is inconsistent with the principles of reason, justice and moral rectitude, it is incompatible with the comfort, peace and happiness of mankind, it is contrary to the principles of social alliance in every free government; and lastly, IT IS CONTRARY TO THE LETTER AND SPIRT OF THE CONSTITUTION. (2 Dall 304, 310 [Pa. 1795]; emphasis added)"
Yes, tell your representatives about this! An emergency session is needed so that we the people of Texas can pass this legislation in November!
Texas must convene an emergency session of the legislature. January 2011 is too late!
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I think I will start calling him comrade obama, this is dangerously close to dictatorship.
But 400 BILLION on unconstitutional health care is ok?
Prescription Drug Benefit.
The final version (conference report) of H.R. 1 would create a prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients. Beginning in 2006, prescription coverage would be available to seniors through private insurers for a monthly premium estimated at $35. There would be a $250 annual deductible, then 75 percent of drug costs up to $2,250 would be reimbursed. Drug costs greater than $2,250 would not be covered until out-ofpocket expenses exceeded $3,600, after which 95 percent of drug costs would be reimbursed. Low-income recipients would receive more subsidies than other seniors by paying lower premiums, having smaller deductibles, and making lower co-payments for each prescription. The total cost of the new prescription drug benefit would be limited to the $400 billion that Congress had budgeted earlier this year for the first 10 years of this new entitlement program. The House adopted the conference report on H.R. 1 on November 22, 2003 by a vote of 220 to 215 (Roll Call 669).
Marsha Blackburn Voted FOR this bill.
Marsha Blackburn is a Hypocrite.
Marsha Blackburn is my Congressman.
See her unconstitutional votes at :
http://tinyurl.com/qhayna
Mickey
Now we just need Gov. Perry to call the special session…….
What concerns me most is the unlimited access the govt will have to my finances – for the express stated purpose of transferring funds from my accounts. Why would any "insurance" company ever need that??? This is nothing but the means of redistributing the wealth, i.e. some bureaucrat will decide I have too much money and it should be given to someone else. I am also concerned about Planned Parenthood's presence in school clinics. I strongly object to the panel to be appointed by the President and answerable only TO the President, and they will be the ones determining who gets what coverage. And there will be NO Congressional oversight, NO appeals process, NOTHING!!!! This is beyond frightening!