It may be the only way to save our constitution from the
Washington DC elite. It seems the constitution is no longer the law of the
land. It has been breached by the President, Legislature, and the Supreme
Court. So what is the next battlefield to protect the principles that made this
nation great? The Tenth Amendment is now the line in the sand that must be
fortified with the state governors and the citizens of those states.
The Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to
the people.”
The federal
government has over stepped its bounds and it is time to bring in the reinforcements.
Governor Jindal, Governor Walker, and Governor Scott, are on the right track by
stating they will not comply with the Obamacare Medicaid mandates but that is
only the first step. There are 18 other Governors that are considering the same
actions toward Medicaid but it is time to expand the scope of services that
need to be nullified. Learn more about Nullification here at the Tenth Amendment Center.
The states need
to reaffirm their role defined in the constitution as a protection against an
over reaching central authority. If the citizens of the states want to fix the
federal government they must participate in electing state representatives that
understand the 10th amendment and are willing to challenge every
federal mandate and start nullifying them.
Governors should
start opening up the medical and healthcare insurance industries by eliminating
mandates for coverage. They should open up the insurance market to include
plans that simply cover catastrophic care and make it easier for doctors to
practice medicine instead of spending their time administering insurance plans.
Doctors should post a price list for services like preventative checkups and
referrals. There are so many market ideas to be unleashed if the mandates are
lifted and government is moved out of the market of healthcare.
States can set up
a couple of simple rules for coverage. If you are an insurer and want to
operate in the state you must accept a percentage of “high risk” patients in
order to operate. People with pre-existing conditions would be distributed to
health insurance companies that operate within the state. The entrepreneurial
spirit and markets will create downward pricing pressures and doctors will have
to compete for patients. In the end the market becomes more responsive to the
patient, and the doctor gets paid a fair market wage not a wage determined by
an insurance company or government bureaucrat.
Healthcare would
be a start but education would be next. Allowing private sector and home school
operations to expand using the tax dollars that would be saved by reducing the
amount of federal tax dollars sent to DC for “education.” The Governors could
determine how much they would allow the federal government to tax their
citizens based on the constitutional responsibilities of the federal
government. That would mean that the federal government would submit a budget
to the states for defense and diplomacy and the states would pay their
apportioned share.
Basically what we
need are state representatives and governors with the fortitude to protect and
defend the constitution. Is it radical? Only if you believe holding the federal
government accountable to its constitutional limits is radical. It is only
common sense and may be our last stand…
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