Oops....wrong....again.
A group representing doctors and surgeons are
suing the Feds over Obama-Care:
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) wants the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) to be overturned, according to its suit filed March 26 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
If the PPACA goes unchallenged, then it spells the end of freedom in medicine as we know it, said Jane Orient, a doctor and the executive director of AAPS, in a statement. Courts should not allow this massive intrusion into the practice of medicine and the rights of patients.
The suit is the third to be filed against the legislation in just its first week. Shortly after President Barack Obama signed the bill into law last week, a cadre of attorneys general, mostly Republican, filed suit, arguing that the mandate that every individual buy coverage is unconstitutional. Virginias attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, filed a similar suit on behalf of the commonwealth.
The AAPS agrees in its suit that the individual mandate is unconstitutional and also argues that use of the 10th Amendment regarding taxation is unconstitutional.
Insurance company executives will be enriched by this requirement, but it violates the Fifth Amendment protection against the government forcing one person to pay cash to another, she said.
The AAPS also argues the law violates the Tenth Amendment, the Commerce Clause, and the provisions authorizing taxation. The taxing and spending power cannot be invoked, as the premiums go to private insurance companies, the group said in the statement.
The traditional sovereignty of the states over the practice of medicine is destroyed by the reform legislation, the group added.
The AAPS said that in determining the cost of the legislation, the Congressional Budget Office was bound by assumptions imposed by Congress, including the ability to save $500 billion in Medicare, and to redirect $50 billion from Social Security.
The group, which forecasts dire shortage of physicians will result from the legislation, wants the court to enjoin the government from promulgating or enforcing insurance mandates.
Anyone who thinks this bill is a good idea should ask themselves 3 questions:
1. if its so good why isnt Congress, the Presidents family and those who wrote the bill subject to it?
2. if its so good and desperately needed in order to provide care for those who are uninsured why does it take 4 years to come into effect?
3. given that 35,000,000 more people will be covered by it and the number of doctors isnt going up anytime soon, how can they expect service to be any better? Its physically and mathematically impossible. Wait times for appointments will climb, waiting room times will increase and tests we get now will be reduced.
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i get tired of correcting VERY SIMPLE concepts...over & over again.
So i won't.... but the WHO does NOT use the same criteria as the United states in live births. that's just ONE hint and a partial answer.
There are more.....but the fact that you haven't even BOTHERED to find out and yet....post as if you have actual knowledge is entertaining to me as well. carry on in the shallow end of the pool. I swim quite a bit deeper however, with the big fish..
