With regard to the tenth amendment, the house caved (in typical fashion) to a single Democrat’s opposition to affirming support for the tenth amendment. She claimed to be afraid it would bring back slavery and segregation.

The problem is that the Lewin Group has *also* been commissioned by Democrats, and their studies quoted by Democrats, when doing so advances the cause of universal health coverage. For instance, check these guys out: http://www.healthcareforall.org/studies.html

I pointed this out to one of my lefty buddies who was screaming about the Lewin Group, and he shut up pretty fast.

http://www.star-telegram.com/804/story/1504240.html

Gov. Rick Perry, raising the specter of a showdown with the Obama administration, suggested Thursday that he would consider invoking states’ rights protections under the 10th Amendment to resist the president’s healthcare plan, which he said would be “disastrous” for Texas.

Interviewed by conservative talk show host Mark Davis of Dallas’ WBAP/820 AM, Perry said his first hope is that Congress will defeat the plan, which both Perry and Davis described as “Obama Care.” But should it pass, Perry predicted that Texas and a “number” of states might resist the federal health mandate.

“I think you’ll hear states and governors standing up and saying ‘no’ to this type of encroachment on the states with their healthcare,” Perry said. “So my hope is that we never have to have that stand-up. But I’m certainly willing and ready for the fight if this administration continues to try to force their very expansive government philosophy down our collective throats.”

Copy Arizona: http://www.azhealthcarefreedomact.com/

and Florida: http://www.azhealthcarefreedomact.com/article/will-florida-ban-national-health-care

The advantage of their trying is that if they fail the impact is limited rather than felt by all of us. If they fail they are likely not so invested in the plan that they refuse to repeal or drastically alter it.

As Louis Brandeis said the states are the “laboratories of democracy”.

Another little noticed or discussed consequence of federalism is that it acts as another check on tyranny. If states become oppressive in their taxation or regulation, citizens are free to leave. That alone acts as a check on the excesses of government. The usurpation of the states’ powers by the Fed leaves us no escape.

I support states trying….and failing due to minimization of collateral damage.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/29/health-reform-massachusetts-opinions-contributors-obama-insurance.html

Tennessee was a disaster:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005987

Oregon is a disaster:

http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php/archives/635-Rep.-Richardson-Coming-Health-Care-Disaster.html

Hawaii had a healthcare disaster:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10272008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/hawaiis_hard_health_care_lesson_135426.htm

GOVERNMENTS SHOULD NOT BE IN THE HEALTH CARE BUSINESS

The 10th Amendment to the US Constitution says:

“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.”…

and nowhere in the explicit enumeration of federal powers is the power to create a national health care plan.

At the root of the growing opposition to Obamacare, in my opinion, is the recognition that the federal government has been encroaching on our Constitutional liberties and expanding its power at the expense of the states for generations and Americans are pushing back. Maybe, just maybe we can put this genie back in its Constitutional bottle. If we allow them to ignore the Constitution now, then the document becomes near meaningless. All we’ll be left with is the 1st Amendment to protect strip clubs.

Progressives do not stop. Ever. So if they manage to get this passed, what’s next? Abolition of 401ks, IRA, private pensions? There must be a line in the sand.

The AARP hasn’t endorsed any plan yet.

The country’s largest advocacy group for Americans over 50 issued a statement after the event saying, “While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills currently under consideration in Congress are inaccurate.”

I’m old enough that I could join the Insurance company called the ARRP but don’t mostly for the way they lobby for left wing causes.

I’m thinking of a new protest of sending back their prepaid mailers asking me to join with a bit red NOOBAMA CARE written on the material.

That would make a good protest. Or even better one, get current members to cut their cards up and send them back to AARP with NO OBAMA CARE included.

AARP on Fox, on the other hand, backtracked and distanced itself from Obamacare.

Some rumors say that AARP has been losing enrollees SO FAST in the last few weeks.