Tenth Amendment Rights and Obama's Takeover of Health Care

Forget right verses left when it comes to a government takeover of health care. What should be of great concern is adherence to our Constitution and especially the tenth amendment. Even if you  feel that our system is broken as far as health care goes, it is unconstitutional to force anyone to purchase any products from any entity. That is a slippery slope that once embarked upon could easily lead to severed rights for all citizens with an all powerful federal government that should be feared.

Nowhere in the entire Constitution is there any power granted to the federal government to mandate that all must purchase health insurance, even though if everyone where to do so it would invariably spread the risk farther and pool greater resources (premiums) for greater coverage for more people.

Utopia on this earth, under man's rule, man's government of men, is not possible period. The right to choose not to purchase insurance is guaranteed to all Americans by our tenth amendment.

And it is not about health care anyway. It is about expanding our government. Government jobs, government power, government control over you and intrusion into your lives. If they pass it, it will be challenged on a Constitutional basis and it will be defeated, invalidated, and overturned by the Supreme Court if Congress and the President will not.

There are currently 17 states that are insulating themselves from participating in a federal takeover of health care by standing on and asserting their tenth amendment right. I am glad that Michigan is one of them. Between MSU and Wayne State college of Medicine, among many others there are great innovations in medicine and pharmaceuticals being made here. We will get to keep all of that and access to it for our citizens in spite of Obama's health care rationing schemes, and government panels that determine who can get what care.