Thread: The federal health insurance con -a must read for patriots

If you don’t believe that the Republican party leadership works in concert with the Democrat party leadership to protect the financial interests of unscrupulous big business, as distinguished from honorable businessmen, then you need to brush up on your history starting with the trusts and monopolies of the late 1800’s early 1900’s. If you do this and follow the path forward you will stumble upon the very actions of Congress which have resulted in today’s lack of competition in the purchase of health insurance policies. I will spare you the colorful historical details and hit the highlights for brevity’s sake but it is important to note the obnoxious nature of monopolies was well known to our founding fathers. For example, the Maryland Constitution states in clear language “that monopolies are odious, contrary to the spirit of free government and the principles of commerce, and ought not to be suffered.â€

What startles me is that the American people are not outraged and up in arms over the various State Legislatures acting in collusion with the Congress of the united States to stifle interstate trade and commerce [our free market system] with respect to health insurance, when the Supreme Court has found this to be an indictable offense, not to mention Obama’s proposed government monopoly which is exactly what the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Clayton Act were intended to forbid under penalty of law.

Why aren’t the various State Legislatures not prosecuted for their part in obstructing the purchase of health insurance across their state lines? Why are they not prosecuted for creating an instate health insurance monopoly? Why do we have such legislation as the Sherman and Clayton Acts if folks in government are allowed to ignore them with impunity?

The barriers between state lines in the purchase of health insurance must be ended if any meaningful competition in the health insurance industry is to be realized by the people. And those like Obama who would create a government health insurance monopoly ought to be tarred and feathered and banished from the country.

And why isn’t the leadership of the Republican party not questioning what part in our written Constitution allows Congress to be working on legislation to impose a federal “health insurance planâ€