If you've ever read the Constitution, you know that it never mentions healthcare, diseases, infections, drugs, or pandemics. It gives the federal government a narrow set of powers and leaves all other powers to the states and the people.
Given this fact, you might wonder how Washington, D.C., has managed to create a cornucopia of agencies and departments designed to "manage" the nation's healthcare.
Constitutional scholar and Article V expert Prof. Rob Natelson has the same question. In a bombshell article for the Epoch Times, Natelson outlines why both agencies are unconstitutional and calls for the abolition of each.
Every federal elected office holder promises to defend the Constitution as the supreme law of the land. Outside of the capital district and the federal territories, that Constitution assigns no powers to the central government over civilian health care. Further, the Constitution limits the permissible size of the capital district to 10 miles square, so as to prevent federal institutions from metastasizing into state territory and unduly influencing state policy.
The great Chief Justice John Marshall—an advocate of a strong federal government—summarized the Constitution’s position on health care in his famous decision in Gibbons v. Ogden (1824): Reserved exclusively for the states, he wrote, are “health laws of every description.”
Nevertheless, enabled by rogue Supreme Court rulings issued in panic circumstances during the Great Depression, Congress continues to fund both the CDC and the NIH.
Natelson's short-term solution is simple: Congress should permanently defund both agencies.
Radical? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely. History tells us why:
Conservatives and “progressives” have one thing in common: Conservatives use their own money to fund their political activities, and “progressives” use the same source—conservatives’ money—to fund theirs. Without constant forced subsidies from hardworking taxpayers (overwhelmingly conservative and moderate), the far left would be an insignificant force in this country.[...]
Permanent defunding is, I recognize, a difficult task. Once accomplished, however, the agency and its lobbyists have vanished, its abuses are over, and a reliable Democrat base has vanished. This is because for all their talk about “public service,” once the money has dried up, bureaucrats don’t hang around. As the late California state senator and humorist H.L. (“Bill”) Richardson often remarked, “I never knew a bureaucrat who worked for nothing.”
A freedom-friendly Congress can act in the short term, but what will stop the next Congress from reinstating funding for a new "healthcare" agency?
Prof. Natelson has a solution for that as well.
As a Senior Advisor for the Convention of States Project, Prof. Natelson has led the movement to call an Article V Convention of States.
A Convention of States is called and controlled by the states and has the power to propose constitutional amendments. These amendments can forever prohibit Congress from funding healthcare by shoring up the language activist Supreme Courts use to expand federal power.
By proposing these amendments to the Constitution, a Convention of States can forever bar Congress from re-creating the CDC, the NIH, and all other agencies that control topics not mentioned in the Constitution.
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