Healthcare Reform – Capt. Karl Replies to Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI)
August 8, 2009 by Capt. Karl
Reply to Senator Kohl from Capt. Karl:
Senator Kohl:
Consider this:
Amendment 9 – Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment 10 – Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note
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.
Can you show me any form of “healthcare” in the powers that We The People authorized the Government to handle in the enumerated powers “listed” in the Constitution? I looked and I cannot find it listed.
- Compel all healthcare providers, doctors, clinics, labs and all other medical facilities to publish their prices and success rates and any “quality” features the go with each of them.
- Make sure ALL PEOPLE have a significant amount of “skin” (dollars) in the game.
- Get the hell out of our way you usurping despotic scofflaws and keep your nose ONLY in the seventeen items we listed for you in LAW that we wrote, established and ordained on you in The Constitution!
- I know you don’t have the time to read the Constitutionally contemptuous bills you pass to enslave us but just as a novel idea why don’t you read the Constitution. It is far less than 1000 pages.
Very truly yours in freedom,
Capt. Karl
From: Senator Herb Kohl [mailto:kohl_enewsletter@kohl.senate.gov]
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:16 PM
To: kkoenigs@new.rr.com
Subject: A Video Message from Sen. Kohl on Health Care Reform
I hope you enjoy receiving these updates about my work on behalf of Wisconsin. It is an honor to represent you in the U.S. Senate. As health care reform takes center stage in Washington, I know many of you have been following the progress we’re making. I’d like to share some additional thoughts with you about our ongoing efforts. Please view my video message at:
Sincerely,
Herb Kohl
“To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and investors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries”
Cleaning up the language it means they have the ability to issue patents.
That’s it. No power to give grants. No post for a Surgeon General. No issuing of insurance for the elderly or indigent. No oversight of the medical treatments, insurance, vaccinations …. All those not mentioned are, as you point out, reserved for the states.
What we need is government stepping in to stop the greedy cardiologists who charge $50,000 for a procedure when other cardiologists charge $10,000 for the same procedure. We need the government to step in when one greedy hospital charges $655.00 for a laxative tablet, and other hospitals charge $2.00 for the same tablet, while the same product can be bought in bulk at Walmart for 15cents a tablet. We need the government to step in when pharmaceutical and medical device companies make dirty deals with doctors, when local hospitals collude on prices, when patients are discharged early so the hospital can turn over the bed to someone whose illness or condition brings in more revenue for the hospital. We need the government to step in where people in rural areas lack access to healthcare because doctors and hospitals have decided it’s not a profitable location to be in. We need the federal government to step in so everyone who needs eyeglasses gets them, so every woman who needs prenatal care gets it, so any one who needs a hearing aid gets one. We need the government to step in so overpadded health care bills and healthcare premuims do not bankrupt the average citizen.