Submitted by: Barbara Payne

The Supreme Court has already spoken out against Congress making universal health care the law of the land. Direct control of medical practice is beyond the power of the federal government. This is a decision of the Supreme Court, decided April 13, 1925, Linder vs. the United States. Then there is this case decided in 1926 that said, “Congress, therefore cannot directly restrict the professional judgment of the physician or interfere with its free exercise in the treatment of disease, Lambert vs. Yellow. You could look at Oregon vs. Ashcroft in 2004 or Conant vs. Walters in 2002. However, they all give similar judgments restricting congress’s authority over medicine and making it clear that the states have this right not congress.

What is being debated in Congress right now is direct control and therefore beyond the power of congress to enact. Let’s flood the senate with this information, call, email or fax them and tell them they cannot do this.