#wbzdebate Republican Charlie Baker, Democrat Martha Coakley and independent candidates Evan Falchuk, Scott Lively, and Jeff McCormick faced off in a wide ranging discussion moderated by WBZ-TV political analyst Jon Keller. #Lively: need for health care waivers at all shows its a broken system. #Baker: Mass. is only state with horrible ACA rollout where no one lost their job. #Coakley: says she has supported health care waivers that have made sense for Massachusetts. #McCormick: Mass. should have asked for innovation waiver under the ACA. #Falchuk: health care costs driving the high cost of living in Mass, addressing those costs is best course for job growth. #MacKinnon: That administrative rules being promulgated by the Department of Health and Human Services, one of the executive Departments of the federal government, to be set forth in Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and which pretend to regulate the medical care of THE PEOPLE throughout the several States; are altogether void, and of no force, as in violation of Art. I, Sec.1, of the federal Constitution. That as matters pertaining to the medical care, health, and human services of THE PEOPLE are nowhere delegated to the federal government by the federal Constitution; but are among the countless multitudes of matters reserved to The States or THE PEOPLE; the federal Department of Health and Human Services is itself an unlawful Department, and its mere existence an affront to the Constitution; and all of the powers it exercises are usurped powers as outside the scope of the powers delegated to the federal government by our Constitution. That if the pretended rules of this spurious federal Department should stand, these conclusions would flow from them; that unelected bureaucrats within the Executive Branch of the federal government may force upon The States, THE PEOPLE, the medical profession, their own ideas of what others must and must not do in the area of medical care; and may force upon them their own ideas of what medical treatments each person shall be provided or denied. That this spurious federal Department will further send out swarms of officers to trespass upon hospitals, doctors’ offices, other places of provision of medical care, and premises of religious institutions, to harass providers of medical services, dictate to them as to what specific medical treatments they must provide and are forbidden to provide to their patients. To this abomination is added the additional affront that the objects of these pretended rules are altogether outside the scope of the enumerated powers THE PEOPLE delegated to the federal government in our Constitution. That the Departments within the Executive Branch of the federal government have established a pattern of unlawfully functioning as legislators, when they write agency rules; as executives, when they investigate and prosecute violations of agency rules; and as judges and juries when they decide whether violations of their agency rules have occurred and impose punishment. Thus the Executive Branch unlawfully functions as legislator, accuser, judge & jury, in violation of the Constitution and of the Principles of Separation of Power and of Checks and Balances. #RESOLVED, That all aspects of the medical care of THE PEOPLE, not being anywhere delegated to the United States by the Constitution, or prohibited by The Constitution to The States, are reserved to The States respectively, or to THE PEOPLE. Therefore, power over this matter is reserved solely and exclusively to the respective States and THE PEOPLE, each within its or their own territory.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:22:11 +0000
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