Comments on: You Bet Your Life http://www.evehrlich.net/2010/04/you-bet-your-life/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:34:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ev http://www.evehrlich.net/2010/04/you-bet-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Ev Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:19:56 +0000 http://www.evehrlich.net/?p=346#comment-66 Well, the Constiuttional mandate to promote the general welfare was only a part of it -- the license to regulate commerce among the states was the specific provision that allowed the Communications Act eight decades ago. And the Court has just ruled out the general welfare as being beyond ancillary. As for health care, citizens are mandated to do all sorts of stuff -- Social Security comes to mind -- and I think health care (or as we call it, insurance reform) will survive any challenge. Well, the Constiuttional mandate to promote the general welfare was only a part of it — the license to regulate commerce among the states was the specific provision that allowed the Communications Act eight decades ago. And the Court has just ruled out the general welfare as being beyond ancillary.

As for health care, citizens are mandated to do all sorts of stuff — Social Security comes to mind — and I think health care (or as we call it, insurance reform) will survive any challenge.

]]> By: Rich Goldberg http://www.evehrlich.net/2010/04/you-bet-your-life/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Rich Goldberg Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:27:38 +0000 http://www.evehrlich.net/?p=346#comment-65 So, is the ruling stating the FCC “has virtually no power to make policies to bring broadband to rural America” provide a precedent to justify states filing suit denying the federal authority to mandate purchase of health care insurance? Or, does net neutrality fall under "promote the general welfare"? - that indeed is what allowed the US to have universal phone service with the regulated Bell System. So, is the ruling stating the FCC “has virtually no power to make policies to bring broadband to rural America” provide a precedent to justify states filing suit denying the federal authority to mandate purchase of health care insurance?

Or, does net neutrality fall under “promote the general welfare”? – that indeed is what allowed the US to have universal phone service with the regulated Bell System.

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