Because I know you were worried.
Section 2531 (pp. 1431-1433) of the “Bend Over And Take It, America” bill seems tantalizing at first glance.
IN GENERAL.—To the extent and in the
amounts made available in advance in appropriations
Acts, the Secretary shall make an incentive payment,
in an amount determined by the Secretary, to each
State that has an alternative medical liability law in
compliance with this section.
Hooray! Some medical liability reform at last! With financial incentives to the states who implement it!
Not so fast.
The “in compliance with this section” has a little escape hatch that pretty much makes the entire thing a head fake.
From page 1432:
CONTENTS OFALTERNATIVEMEDICALLI-
ABILITYLAW.—The contents of an alternative liabil-ity law are in accordance with this paragraph if—
(A) the litigation alternatives contained in
the law consist of certificate of merit, early
offer, or both; and
(B) the law does not limit attorneys’ fees
or impose caps on damages. (italics mine)
So, as long as the alternative liability law doesn’t provide any actual alternative to the status quo, the states will receive a financial incentive. Even when they pretend to be looking for a way to save money they come up with new and insane ways to spend it.
At least we now know why it’s 1900 pages long.
It has to be big enough to cover all the attorneys’ asses.
Although corrupt lawyers are a problem, why aren’t more Constitution-defending patriots pointing out the real problem with Obamacare?
The main problem with Obamacare is actually not the Oval Office and Congress, IMO, but the people. More specifically, US citizens have evidently not been teaching the Constitution and its history to their children for many generations, particularly the constitutionally enumerated principle of state sovereignty. Consequently, the people do not understand that since the federal Constitution is silent about programs like Obamacare and the Stimulus Package, the 10th A. automatically reserves government power to regulate and lay taxes for such things to the states, not the Oval Office and Congress.
In fact, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored, which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824) http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html
So not only is misguided Obama’s proposed healthcare constitutionally unauthorized, but based on Justice Marshall’s official words, the corrupt Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund such a program in the first place.
What’s going on, IMO, is the following. State sovereignty-ignorant voters have been electing lawmakers to both the state legislatures and the federal senate who are as state sovereignty-impaired as the voters are. Consequently, these lawmakers have not been doing their jobs to protect state sovereignty by protecting citizens from illegal federal taxes and unconstitutional federal government interference in their lives.
Finally, the following link should help give people an idea how state sovereignty-ignorant voters have shot themselves in the foot with big, corrupt federal government as a consequence of the ill-conceived, anti-state sovereignty 16th and 17th Amendments.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=199792
PelosiCare: A Curiously Unconstitutional “Bill”…
Let’s see what’s in the PelosiCare facade…
Two posts from blogprof, here…