“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.”
by Josh Eboch The Campaign for Liberty has stepped to the plate big time in Virginia, getting out ahead of the feds and finding a sponsor for the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act, to be introduced in 2010. The Act reads, in part: Neither the Governor nor the...
by Jake Towne Recently, the U.S. Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, responding to a reporter’s question of whether the Constitution gave Congress the authority to enact individual health insurance mandate, kept repeating, “Are you serious?” Now,...
by Sheldon Richman, The Freeman Let’s begin at the beginning. Medical care is not a free good found in nature. Of course, no one really thinks it is. But that doesn’t keep most people from wanting to pretend otherwise, and the current institutional setting makes...
by Paul Ballonoff The interest of the current administration in creating a federal national health care program, has provoked discussion of whether the federal government has sufficient power to do so. Often, the discussion is phrased as whether “the governmentâ€...
by Bob Ellis, DakotaVoice.com Federalism and Tenth Amendment state’s rights have been under assault since the days of FDR. The federal government was created to serve the states and, in the words of James Madison, “to be exercised principally on external objects,...
by Wayne J. Barbarek Although there may be problems, as in any industry, I cannot keep from wondering to what, or which, “system” everyone is referring. There is all this talk of the “National” health care system; however, I fail to find where...
