This really hits home. My mom has/had cancer and is uninsured (and too young for Medicare). She used her life savings to pay for her hospitalization, surgery, and care. She may have another form of cancer that she can't even have it diagnosed because it costs too much money and she has none left. She also has diabetes and pays for her medication and doctor's care herself. She's currently unemployed too, but can't get aid because -- get this -- she makes too much with unemployment to be eligible.
Yeah, we need a fucking healthcare overhaul in this country!
That said, I wonder if the Commerce Clause argument (of the U.S. Constitution) raised in that article is going to be found to be valid by the current Supreme Court. I know that a federal domestic violence act had been found unconstitutional because the Court held that it exceeded the authority the federal government had under the Commerce Clause. (As a bit of history, most civil rights legislation was implemented under the Commerce Clause). While health does, indeed, impact interstate commerce (at least I think so), I think this is in for an interesting, i.e., annoying, legal fight.
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Date: 2010-03-24 03:56 am (UTC)This really hits home. My mom has/had cancer and is uninsured (and too young for Medicare). She used her life savings to pay for her hospitalization, surgery, and care. She may have another form of cancer that she can't even have it diagnosed because it costs too much money and she has none left. She also has diabetes and pays for her medication and doctor's care herself. She's currently unemployed too, but can't get aid because -- get this -- she makes too much with unemployment to be eligible.
Yeah, we need a fucking healthcare overhaul in this country!
That said, I wonder if the Commerce Clause argument (of the U.S. Constitution) raised in that article is going to be found to be valid by the current Supreme Court. I know that a federal domestic violence act had been found unconstitutional because the Court held that it exceeded the authority the federal government had under the Commerce Clause. (As a bit of history, most civil rights legislation was implemented under the Commerce Clause). While health does, indeed, impact interstate commerce (at least I think so), I think this is in for an interesting, i.e., annoying, legal fight.
It makes me want to scream.