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The quote below from Senator Akaka is one of the latest related to constitutional questions being raised about healthcare reform legislation.

Sen. Akaka Says ‘I’m Not Aware’ of Constitution Giving Congress Authority to Make Individuals Buy Health Insurance
Thursday, November 12, 2009
By Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter

(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii) says he is “not aware” of the Constitution giving Congress the authority to make individuals purchase health insurance, as the health care bills in both the House and Senate require.

Another commonly quoted statement on this issue expresses the notion that state laws require one to carry auto insurance. Several other quotes feature various legislators essentially guessing about the whole matter. These quotes or sound bites may best demonstrate what is wrong with the present push for healthcare reform.

It suggests that many in Congress and the White House may have no idea what they’re doing. Such a sentiment is no stranger to observations of those in public office. The following information is also no stranger in mixing political agendas and legislation.

“We find his statements to be overly optimistic, misleading and, to some extent, contradicted by one of his own advisers,” the Annenberg FactCheck.org Web site reported at the time. “And it masks the true cost of his plan to cover millions of Americans who now have no health insurance.”

Masking the true cost of healthcare is exactly what Democrats have done, Moffit says.

“You’re going to see higher premiums, you’re going to have higher taxes, you’re going to have higher premiums for Medicare,” Moffit tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview. “And you’re not getting a bend in the spending curve, but rather a $1.3 trillion dollar explosion in additional spending over the next 10 years.

“So I don’t know what the White House thinks we’re drinking, but the truth of the matter is, none of this is believable,” he says.

Moffit says taxpayers’ first installment on healthcare’s hidden costs may come as early as next week, when the House is scheduled to take up the $210 billion “doctor’s fix” bill.

Feel free to follow the link and read the rest as it provides an example of what you see is not exactly what you get. Legislative maneuvers by unscrupulous politicians afford them political cover while stiffing the taxpayer and even those who view more government spending as a boon for their wallets. This entire exercise in healthcare reform is the dangerous ruse as it has been characterized by many since the charade began.

Obamacare Vote Chicanery Debunks Moderate Democrat Myth
Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:06 PM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Don’t assume that the 38 Democrats who voted against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s extremist version of healthcare reform wouldn’t have supported it if their votes had been needed.

The days before the final passage on Saturday were not filled with stirring appeals to get Democrats to back the bill so much as an auction to decide whom to let off the hook.

Knowing that the bill probably be political suicide for any red-state Democratic member of Congress, particularly the freshmen, the House leadership had to negotiate with its members to assure that the 38 defectors were the ones who needed the political cover the most.

This blog published a post on November 8th expressing a similar analysis as the one provided above. Another analysis being supported on this blog deals with the GOP and their alternative reform plan. Just as the CBO has scored liberal healthcare reform plans as too expensive and lacking in benefit to the public, their scoring of the GOP alternative suggests exactly what the GOP claimed. It is a first step for improving healthcare in the US that provides savings and more coverage for uninsured without breaking the bank. Allowing this great nation to move more slowly and carefully with respect to reform and avoid the risk of massive new debt, deficits and taxes that would cripple the economy.

The liberal power grab agenda and its centerpiece legislative coup of healthcare reform should raise red flags on anyone’s political radar. The same attempt to induce massive panic among this nation’s citizens was carried out during the Clinton administration. Healthcare did not cause the economy to collapse then and it will not now. The same cannot be said for legislation like HR 3962 or other liberal proposals currently in Congress.

Addressing healthcare reform as proposed by the GOP alternative in smaller steps is prudent, responsible and logical. Progress can be measured along the way. Problems can be avoided or corrected with much more ease. The nation will not need to accept the risk of an ‘all in’ strategy as suggested by the liberals in Congress and the White House. Their’s is a gambling strategy our nation cannot afford. But then their agenda is not about healthcare reform. It is about the expansion of government and the political power grab they seek.

Stanford Matthews
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