Title: The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance - Capital Research Center
Headings: The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance
The 28th Amendment: protecting the right to health care and health care insurance
Dr. Steven J. Allen
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Content: [The amendment refers to “Congress” doing this, but remember that, under the Constitution, only Congress can enact federal laws, so the provision amounts to a blanket prohibition on the creation of such laws by the federal government. Yes, I am aware that President Obama, who brags about being a law professor despite the fact that he was never a law professor, claims that the President can create laws without the consent of Congress. I will now give his argument the respect it deserves: BWAHAHAHA.] Just as the right of Freedom of Religion does not obligate the government (taxpayers, that is) to buy you a church, and the right of Freedom of the Press does not obligate the government to buy you a printing press, the right to healthcare does not obligate the government to buy you healthcare. Rather, the right to healthcare means that you can obtain healthcare, or insurance for healthcare, in any way you wish without the involvement of government. Even “professor” Barack Obama understands this concept, apparently. In a 2001 interview, he complained about it. The Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical.