From: hrubin@skew.stat.purdue.edu   
      
   On 2012-03-28, Neal Boortz  wrote:   
   > Yeah … that’s the line Hans Solo delivered to Luke Skywalker after Luke   
   > scored his first kill of a Federation X-wing.  I’m troubled by all of   
   > the pundits that came away from yesterday’s oral arguments telling us   
   > that the ObamaCare mandate was in deep squeeze.  Remember.  I’m not so   
   > sure.  It could have been that these justices were just holding   
   > Verrilli’s feet to the fire in order to glean from him points they could   
   > make in their own decision in favor of the mandate.  I have very little   
   > confidence that this Supreme Court will decide this case on   
   > Constitutional grounds.  Recent court decisions aren’t encouraging.   
   > How, for instance, can the court rule that it’s OK for a local   
   > government to seize your property and give it to someone else simply   
   > because that other person will build something nicer on that piece of   
   > ground that will generate more tax revenue for the city government!  A   
   > Supreme Court that could rule that way will find an excuse to rule any   
   > way it wishes to .. often based on social pressures and political   
   > philosophy rather   
      
   > There is an argument that we will be in an even more dangerous position   
   > here if the Court finds the mandate to be unconstitutional but allows   
   > the rest of the law to stand.  Here’s the short version --- If the court   
   > allows the rest of ObamaCare to stand our Dear Ruler and his leftist   
   > enablers will move immediately to use the remaining provisions of   
   > ObamaCare to run the private insurance companies out of business.  They   
   > will do this to move on to their precious “single payer.”  That single   
   > payer, of course, will be the government.  I think that there is an   
   > argument to be made that the path to socialized medicine – the path that   
   > the Democrats have been on for decades.   
      
   > Remember --- PLEASE remember --- none of this is about improving the   
   > quality and availability of your health care.  It is all about the   
   > government (the Democrats) getting complete and absolute control of your   
   > health care.  Controlling your access to health care means controlling   
   > YOU.  Hopefully you won’t wait until it’s too late to figure that out.   
      
   The Obamacare advocates claim that they will be giving everyone   
   ADEQUATE healthcare.  This is flatly impossible; the human   
   resources are not there.  Frankly, I cannot get the healthcare   
   I would like, and can pay for, because the cost of time and   
   other intangibles would be far too great.   
      
   We must NEVER have a government organization with this power.   
   The FDA should give us the information, and unless there is   
   a public health issue like the development of antibiotic   
   resistance or other danger to the public at large, not the   
   individual, it should see that we get the information and   
   allow us to make the decisions.   
      
      
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   Herman Rubin, Department of Statistics, Purdue University   
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