Thread: MEDIAMATTERS at it again, spreading myths about H/C reform

Well, once again we find MEDIAMATTERS spreading myths and making things up about Congress’ powers to regulate commerce with reference to health care reform, see: Wash. Times revives myth that health reform is unconstitutional


MEDIAMATTERS writes:

Wash. Times claim about individual mandate forwards a conservative myth. Conservative media figures including Fox News' senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano, Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, and Mike Huckabee, and serial health care misinformer Betsy McCaughey have claimed that the individual mandate is unconstitutional.



Numerous experts have concluded that individual mandate is, in fact, constitutional.In fact, legal scholars -- including George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, who recently served as a special counsel to Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) during Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation proceedings -- have pointed out the flaws in conservatives' arguments, including that regulation of the health care sector falls under Congress' broad power to regulate interstate commerce and that Congress has repeatedly passed laws regulating health care and health insurance. In a December 2009 paper for the American Constitution Society, National Senior Citizen Law Center public policy counsel Simon Lazarus added that arguments that the individual mandate is unconstitutional "have no basis in law, neither in the grants of authority to Congress in Article I nor in limitations on that authority in the Bill of Rights, nor in the case law interpreting these provisions. Opponents' real grievance is with the law in its current state. Their hope is that a majority of the Supreme Court will seize on a challenge to mandatory health insurance as an occasion to make major changes in current law."

[b][i]“Numerous experts have concluded that individual mandate is, in fact, constitutional.â€

You can find left wing progressive radical law professors in almost every collgege in the United States these days, who will say what progressives want to suit their own agenda.

Proof, look at the crap they are teaching our kids.

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

You can find left wing progressive radical law professors in almost every collgege in the United States these days, who will say what progressives want to suit their own agenda.

Proof, look at the crap they are teaching our kids.

Our government school system has become an institution of indoctrination, not education!


JWK