Subject: [big campaign] If Health Reform Is Unconstitutional, So Is Medicare
From: Adam Jentleson <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:40:37 -0400
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On MSNBC today, Former Reagan official/current CATO legal scholar Roger Pilon affirmed that the same flawed logic conservatives are using to argue that health reform is unconstitutional would render Medicare unconstitutional as well.

Transcript:

Millhiser:. "...And I also want to push back on something that Roger said when he suggested there's nothing in the Constitution that allows the regulation of health care. If Congress can't pass laws regulating health care, Medicare is unconstitutional. Medicaid is unconstitutional. SCHIP is unconstitutional."

Pilon: "Absolutely right, Ian. I'm not going to disagree with you. What we're talking about here is the distinction between the Constitution and modern post-New Deal constitutional law. The founders would be turning in their graves if they'd seen what we've done under the commerce power. But you said it authorizes Congress to regulate commerce. Here you've got a bill that requires people to buy insurance. That's not regulating commerce. That's regulating human activity, indeed, human inactivity."

(Ian Millhiser<http://www.americanprogress.org/aboutus/staff/MillhiserIan.html> is an attorney and Policy Analyst at the Center for American Progress  Action Fund.)

Full clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOQyINYZboY

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Adam Jentleson
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Center for American Progress Action Fund
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