Patrick Henry Sellers has been busy over the holidays drafting a solution stopping Obamacare which merely requires a majority in the House of Representatives. This Resolution puts Congress on notice that these candidates do not intend to allow the government to take over our health care. Patrick Henry Sellers challenges the other Pa. 6th district candidates to co-sponsor this Resolution and take a pro-active approach to stopping Obamacare.

HOUSE RESOLUTION: GET WELL AMERICA RESOLUTION
INTRODUCED BY PATRICK HENRY SELLERS
A RESOLUTION OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
PURSUANT TO OUR OBLIGATION TO UPHOLD THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES

WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States has passed legislation to provide and regulate health care and health care insurance (final title and bill number NA yet); and,

WHEREAS, this same legislation requires certain groups of citizens, but not all citizens, to purchase health care insurance; and,

WHEREAS, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has projected estimated costs for this legislation to be in excess of $ 1,000,000,000,000 ($ 1 trillion) over a ten year period; and,

WHEREAS, congressional estimates for Medicare were grossly underestimated in 1966, when Medicare cost $3 billion annually. The House Ways and Means Committee estimated it would cost $12 billion annually by 1990. The actual cost in 1990 was $107 billion. The fiscal year 2010 budget has allotted $ 743 billion for Medicare and Medicaid; and,

WHEREAS, this health care plan unrealistically expects to siphon $ 634 billion from projected Medicare and Medicaid expenditures to provide some of this funding; and,

WHEREAS, the individual states will be required to provide undefined funds for this plan; and

WHEREAS, the above-mentioned state funding would not be fairly distributed, since Nebraska would not be required to pay any of the additional Medicaid costs that would be required of the other 49states; and,

WHEREAS, the bills’ expenditures would not be fairly distributed because vague language in the bill referring to “frontier counties” would allow a small number of unnamed states to receive more hospital Medicare funding than the other states; and,

WHEREAS, as many as 111 new federal bureaucracies will be created under this bill, which will further increase the size and scope of the executive branch of our central government; and,

WHEREAS, these new agencies will be beyond the normal scope of the Congress and will have the ability to promulgate new rules and regulations that will have the force and effect of law without any vote from our elected Representatives; and,

WHEREAS, we have ignored the problems with Canada’s National Health Care, where long waiting lists for services needed quickly caused many Canadians to cross the border and pay out of pocket for treatment in the United States; and,

WHEREAS, we have ignored the problems with Great Britain’s National Health Care where there are long lines for hospital admission and rationing is the norm ; and,

WHEREAS, we have also ignored the problems with Massachusetts’ state health care plan where there are people waiting four months to get primary care appointments; and,

WHEREAS, the proponents of this bill have acknowledged the growing shortage of doctors and other health care workers, that an increase in these providers will be required for this bill, and have done nothing to remedy this problem; and,

WHEREAS, Medicare, our existing, partial national health care program, is on the verge of insolvency, and we have done nothing to resolve this dilemma; and,

WHEREAS, the Congress will be inundated defending lawsuits challenging the bill’s constitutionality, with Utah’s Patrick Henry Caucus and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott leading the way; and,

WHEREAS, in accordance with Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America, all legislative powers must be “herein granted”; and

WHEREAS, no provisions can be found among the enumerated powers that allow Congress to provide, regulate, require, or otherwise take any action regarding health care; and

WHEREAS, no provision can be found among these same powers that would allow Congress to impose fines, either directly or through any of the various subordinate agencies that have been or will be established to regulate health care on people who do not purchase health care insurance; and,

WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution reserves those “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution” to “the states respectively , or to the people”; and,

WHEREAS, all members of Congress take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States” ; and,

WHEREAS, Article I, Section 7 of the United States Constitution stipulates that “All bills for raising\revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives”; therefore, be it

RESOLVED that the undersigned future members of the 112 Congress of these United States intend to stand by their oath to support and defend the Constitution and refuse to support any revenue bill to pay for this unconstitutional Health Care bill.

Patrick Henry Sellers Pennsylvania’s 6th district.