The ? contaminated ? baggie. Where is the evidence pointing to that FACT? Forensic evidence.

While Zimmerman is stating self defense, the autopsy of Trayvon Martin is sealed.

...The Volusia County Medical Examiner's office, (click title to entry - thank you) the body that "independently, objectively and scientifically determines the cause and manner of death under certain circumstances," handled the autopsy.

For now, that report remains under seal, spokesman Dave Byron told The Times. It has been forwarded to the Seminole County branch of the Florida state attorney's office and won't be made public while the investigation is pending.

That office, as well as the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice, are among the agencies investigating the Feb. 26 shooting. 

Sanford law enforcement sources recently told the Orlando Sentinel that there's evidence to suggest Martin might have been the aggressor in the incident. Police say those leaks were unauthorized but confirm that the information contained in the Sentinel's article was "consistent" with the details the agency provided prosecutors....

Okay, if there are unauthorized leaks coming from Sanford law enforcement, I want an investigation to the leaks and I want the evidence sealed in an FBI facility where it can't be tampered with. It is a reasonable request and one that appears all too prudent for this case at this point in time. 


Sanford law enforcement AGAIN has violated the public trust and exhibits poor police conduct. The FBI needs to handle this from here out because there is nothing about Sanford law enforcement at this time that is trustworthy. Any reporting of 'leaked' material as FACT by any journalist is completely irresponsible as it cannot be validated. The facts in this case are sealed and the sources unknown.


The so called 'leaked facts' are as much myth as truth at this point.

Joe Oliver should stop lying for George Zimmerman.

Tonight, Mr. Oliver made a lame statement about the racial slur used by Zimmerman in the 911 tapes.  


Joking right?


Coon or Goon?


Really?


Okay, let's give Mr. Oliver his fantasy so he can lie to everyone and believe Zimmerman said Goon. According to Mr. Oliver's daughter that is an affectionate word used between high school students. Why an adult of 28 years would be using it is a curiosity, but, let's just say that is what Zimmerman said.


I have only one question.


Just one.


Is a "Fucking Goon" an expression of affection between high school students?

Delric Miller murder, person of interest questioned

This murder was cited on Murdoch's O'Reilly No Spin Zone. It was speculated the President of the USA did not comment on this murder of a black infant with an AK-47. The shooting and infant death occurred in Detroit.


Here again the Right Wing Media has no clue and they should simply not comment on 'comparison and compare.'


In this case, the police are very engaged in finding the killer. Again, the topic of assault weapons is an issue. Here again the advocacy of the NRA is still a problem.


It is not realistic for President Obama to comment on every murder in the USA, racial or not. The Trayvon Martin case has a sincere message of injustice and lack of expertise in its handling. An innocent young black man was killed after being pursued as a criminal while trying to defend himself without the benefit of a gun.


The NRA's answer is for both men to be armed, even though Trayvon was 17 and under the age of majority. The NRA would never come forward to be appauled if there was a gun fight between the two. The NRA would never come forward to denounce the evidence of the use of an AK47 in the death of an infant.


There is no comparison between the two cases and in both cases Americans, both minority Americans were victims of the agenda of the NRA and the propaganda of Murdoch's hate machine. If the Assault Weapons Ban was still in force, would this infant be alive today?


Dozens of bullets from an AK47 (click title to entry - thank you) pierced the windows and walls of a home on Detroit's west side early Monday, killing a 9-month-old baby sleeping on the couch.


Several neighbors, accustomed to hearing gunshots in the neighborhood, dropped to the ground and protected their pets and children.


Police arrived 24 minutes after the first 911 call, although they weren't told anyone was hit until a later call. Delric Waymon Miller IV was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead....


The attack on Reverend Al Sharpton by Bill O'Reilly is uncalled for, as after all, it is Murdoch that always claims if FOX News didn't cover the topics they do, ie "Tea Party" then no one would. When will Murdoch's media service simply admit their viewers prefer to hate minorities than solve the problems of a nation?

Obama asks for space on missile defense

I would expect any negotiations President Obama could enter into with President Medvedev of Russia would carry far less brevity in an election year, especially on Missile Defense. Missile Defense is a charged election year issue in the USA. The differences in views between Democrats and Republicans is well known.


Equity in missile defense in Europe is a delicate subject, however, parking the missiles at the Russian border is simply a bad idea and invites mutual threat. Poland would be caught in the middle. It is a matter of negotiations and with a change in the Presidency in Russia it is better to convene new negotiations with the Putin administration.


If President Obama attempted to address the missile defense system in an election year, there is a very good chance the measure would not pass and in that the reality the USA and Russia were cast into having profound differences. It is better to allow the topic to stay in anticipation of negotiations rather than have it acted on in anger by a GOP that likes to appear to be muscle flexing even when it is far less prudent to do it.


I am pleased to hear President Obama and President Medvedev were able to easily converse about missile defense for what seems less than 60 seconds without a pause in postponement of the negotiations to another time and another Russian administration. The ease at which they spoke shows a good rapport between the two and if there was any doubt missile defense was a impetus to USA and Russian conflict that can now be put to rest.

Joe Oliver, long time friend with Zimmerman was NOT an eyewitness.

Zimmerman stalked a young black man and was carrying a gun, that looks like intent to me, he believed to be dangerous and engaged in a confrontation. Trayvon had every right to defend himself. 

It is evident the NRA is involved. Defaming the victim is a classic trademark. 

By msnbc.com news services 

Trayvon Martin, the teenager (click here) whose shooting death has sparked a national uproar, was suspended from school last month for having a baggie that contained marijuana residue in his book bag, a family spokesman said M0nday....

Murdoch is painting Zimmerman as a sympathetic figure. There is gross bias by Murdoch's media. Bill Hemmer stated, "Watch to see how this goes." as if he expected 'the truth' is completely opposite as to what is being reported today.

Because Zimmerman has cooperated doesn't mean a thing. A person cooperates to seek a statement of character before a judge. There are plenty of criminals in prison that cooperated, too.


Zimmerman did not do the right thing, he was told by the police dispatcher not to pursue. He pursued and he pursed a young black man that posed absolutely no threat to him. Zimmerman confronted Trayvon and he did so armed with a weapon to kill him.


We do know what happened after Zimmerman got out of the car. He pursued Trayvon up a sidewalk. Trayvon was moving away from him and we know Trayvon believed he was being followed by testimony of his girlfriend while they were having a phone conversation. We also know Trayvon's phone fell to the ground. 


Zimmerman would have to drive his car/van up the curb in order to pursue Trayvon if he didn't get out of the car when Trayvon turned off the road an up a sidewalk. 


Zimmerman was acting on his estimation Trayvon was dangerous. He was carrying a weapon because he believed Trayvon was dangerous. What else has to be understood? Nothing. Zimmerman was acting as a vigilante and there was no self-defense on his part. He was in pursuit of someone he estimated to be dangerous after the police told him not to do that. Zimmerman fully expected to 'handle the situation' while carrying a gun. Zimmerman is guilty of pursuit of an innocent unarmed black young man with intent to bring deadly force.


The Sanford Police didn't notify anyone of the death and the family had to discover it three days later. The Sanford Police did not do everything right.

SANFORD, FLA. - A neighborhood watch captain (click title to entry - thank you) told police he fatally shot Trayvon Martin after the teenager punched him, knocked him down and slammed his head into the ground, the Orlando Sentinel reported on Monday.... 

...The Feb. 26 killing of the black teenager as he walked through a gated community by Zimmerman, a white Hispanic, has triggered protests around the country and calls for Zimmerman’s arrest.

Zimmerman had followed Martin and reported him to police before their deadly encounter. He said believed the young man in a “hoodie” hooded sweatshirt looked to be “up to no good.”...

The Penalty in the Affordable Care Act is a revenue issue. I think Ginsburg has derailed the purpose.

The penalty for not purchasing health insurance is to be used to defray the costs of the uninsured on the country. So, it is a revenue with a purpose. It is not a revenue if everyone has a health insurance policy, but, then there would be no reason to defray costs.


It is a tax called a penalty because it is mandatory if a health insurance policy is not evident. I think these arguments are superfluous to the purpose of any of the law.

DAVIS v. HALPERN (click here)

768 F.Supp. 968 (1991)
Roberts asked if Mr. Long was expecting the Court to overturn the Davis v. Halpern Case, so, there are cases already decided law under Stare Decisis.  But, the Robert's Court loves to seek destruction of Stare Decisis. Iam not surprised Robert's stated that as well. It very well may be the case before the Court is being used for other purposes than health care simply because it brings the case law into force. Robert is an activist judge and he does not accept precedent as important. So, we are up against a politically motivated court, regardless, of what is stated.
The Anti-Junction Act stands in this case.  Has to. It was established in 1793. The Anti-injunction states the federal courts cannot act against the states before they decide their case. The penalty does not take effect until 2014, in that, there is no state decision regarding the penalty until there are cases in which to decide. So, the states are trying to 'fashion' a case through imagineering of what is going to occur in the future. The states are saying they are injured because there will be grievances in the future, therefore, they want the court reverse the Anti-Injunction Act. An act that has stood over two hundred years. This is a mess. I just don't see it.   
The states have no idea what their 'injury' will be under Medicaid in 2014 in 2012, they can only guessing. In the case of Georgia, it's Senator Graham complained there will be more people that will fall under Medicaid in 2014 than today. Gee, that's a shame. So, having more people falling into the poverty statue of the ACA in having 133% of the poverty level then being eligible for Medicaid says more about the state of Georgia then it ever says about the compassion of the federal government in that requirement. I can't believe we are going through this exercise. 

"Freedom of Conscience"

Now the Right Wing is going to accuse the US Constitution of mind control. This is a representative government, conscience is exhibited in the voting booth. This is not a method of dictatorship and the argument is mute.


The Affordable Care Act is based on Insurance Exchanges whereby the cost of premiums is a cumulative methodology. The chances of being in an exchange where ones 'conscience is insulted' is as good as being insulted outside the environment of a church. If one expects too have their conscience insulted by the very society whereby they are citizens then that is their reality in knowing they have no control over others behaviors.


Conscience is an individual process and we all should be grateful for the Burger Court. Conscience is not a process of legislation, nor should it ever be.

President Obama has an obligation to speak to minority issues. (A prayer for Trayvon Martin - click title to entry - thank you)

President Obama’s remarks on the Martin case at a Friday Rose Garden press conference “disgraceful” for focusing on race. 


I find the comment by Gingrich offensive, out of context and racist. 


The nation is very lucky to have a minority President. He is brilliant. 


President Obama was compassionate and it is his obligation as the leader of the free world to speak out about minority issues, especially when those issues exist in the USA.


Maybe Mr. Gingrich wants to be seen in that light. One of the favorite venues of the GOP is Anti-Affirmative Action, and in that reality is a definitive bias against minorities. So, from a political point of view he 'took them on.'


The lack of action in the death of Trayvon Martin by authorities is an obvious and egregious racist decision. Everyone along the way DECIDED the young man was a criminal based on the testimony of Zimmerman. They believed the gunman before they ever thought the young black man was a victim to hatred. Actions speak louder than words. Trayvon could not speak for himself, but, the reality before us speaks for itself. An unarmed young black man was ambushed by a Hispanic man with a gun. Based on what? Based on the fact he was walking through a gated community? Walking is not a crime. 


If we are to believe Zimmerman was acting in defense of his 'point of view' we are back to the days of the KKK. A point of view is indefensible at gunpoint. There is nothing that validates the actions of Mr. Zimmerman. Nothing along the way validates his fears, anger or hatred. If we are to believe Mr. Zimmerman, then police are ineffective in preventing robberies. This entire disaster is at the hand of a man without a valid reason. In a gated community, I would fully expect homeowners would have alarms systems, watch dogs, etc. There simply is no way I have been able to validate Mr. Zimmerman's actions, except, for his profound discrediting of police and the death of a young black man. There was absolutely no reason for any of it, especially the fact he has not been arrested.

"Morning Papers" - It's Origin

Good Night, Moon

March 25, 2012


The Waxing Crescent


3.1 days


10.7% lit


Stranding of citizens is malpractice of government. When a country bases it's government in rewarding profits of companies, it isn't taking care of it's citizens any longer. The rights of citizens has to be well incorporated into the rewards of the private sector otherwise stranding in the only real outcome.


What is the function of the Department of Commerce if it isn't looking toward the future of it's citizens. The idea a USA government agency official should have spent so much time in China while receiving a salary from the people of this country, only to have the people suffer at the indulgences of that priority is not only malpractice, it is criminal.


The people of the USA have been stranded by the malpractice of it's government due to the corruption of its politics. The people are not put first in at least half of the parties of it's political system. 


The people have a right to a life within the sovereignty of the USA and to be protected from economic failure of an incompetent and greedy private sector. I often consider those that seek to ridicule citizens for receiving SSI or Disability or other entitlements to be Anti-American because they place 'the citizen' in lower stature to their high regard of money/gold. A country is it's people. Without its' people there is no functioning private sector. There are no profits. The companies of the USA should relish the vitality of the society in which it exists, for it is that vitality that provides a company its purpose.


Companies are not people and they cannot have a purpose or profit without them.


Support President Obama in his bid for re-election. He was always been there for us.

Climate and sea level rise are related, but, climate can be hostile to life even though the ice fields of Earth are not completely melted.

...Earth’s glaciers and ice caps (click title to entry - thank you) outside of the regions of Greenland and Antarctica are shedding about 150 billion tons of ice annually, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

The total mass ice loss from Greenland, Antarctica and all Earth’s glaciers and ice caps between 2003 to 2010 was 1,000 cubic miles, about eight times the water volume of Lake Erie.

“The total amount of ice lost to Earth’s oceans from 2003 to 2010 would cover the entire United States in about 1 and one-half feet of water,” said CU-Boulder physics Professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study….

The measurements are important because the melting of the world’s glaciers and ice caps, along with Greenland and Antarctica, pose the greatest threat to sea level increases in the future, Wahr said....

Conservationists understand stranding more than most.

"Habitat loss and drought"


It wasn't long ago peers would state, it will be really scary when mammals start to be added to the threatened and endangered lists.


Indeed.

Are we this willing to strand ourselves again under leadership that victimizes the Middle Class ?

Are we going to strand our Seniors? Leave them to chance? The Republicans reject the health care insurance overhaul and state they will provide a private insurance option for Medicare.

What? None of it makes sense. How can a party seek to overhaul Medicare and leave other Americans stranded without a chance for their own wellness or survival? This is a plan? It doesn't even recognize the current law.

The suggestion by this incredible revelation of changing the way Medicare is abandoned for private insurance is a trap that will only further stand our citizens. There is no prevention for increases in cost for private insurances. If the Republicans are elected to majorities in 2012, there won't be any State Exchanges either. So, Mr. Ryan is a deceptive author that seeks to change the vision of our benevolent country.

I heard someone from the CBO speak today stating it would be a far better answer for health insurance if everyone was employed. Imagine that. An employee from the CBO stumping for the GOP. That would be a good idea if Wall Street Republicans didn't continually victimize the majority of citizens and health insurance companies didn't remove those that are ill from their roles. Such an answer by a CBO employee is completely blind to the reality of our capitalized based democracy in an environment of destroyed regulations and those that seek to continue to destroy the barriers between profits at the price of human life.

This plan by Ryan isn't realistic nor moral.

March 25, 2012 2:20 PM 

By

Lucy Madison

(CBS News) 

Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (click title to entry - thank you) on Sunday defended his controversial 2013 budget proposal, telling CBS' "Face the Nation" that the plan would help America avoid a debt crisis while creating jobs and spurring economic growth.

"We're putting the budget on a path to balance and to pay the debt off. We want to avoid a debt crisis. The president's budget brings us closer to a debt crisis," Ryan told CBS' Norah O'Donnell.

Ryan's proposed budget, which he unveiled last week, drew immediate criticism from Democrats, who say it places the burden of reducing the deficit solely on the backs of the middle-class and the elderly.

Ryan on Sunday argued that his proposal requires sacrifice from all Americans - and disputed theWhite House claim that it would give millionaires a $150,000 tax cut.

"Those numbers are obviously not credible," Ryan said.

In addition to adding a private insurance option for seniors using Medicare, Ryan's budget would overhaul the tax code and would create just two income tax brackets - 25 percent and 10 percent. The proposal is unlikely to pass the Senate, controlled by Democrats, and has little chance of becoming law. It does, however, set up an ideological battle between the left and the right over budget priorities as the 2012 election nears....

Our cities have become stranded and now a Governor actually thinks treating democracy as a burden is the answer.

Those that stranded up here are believed by the electorate to have the answer?


Really?


We are willing to destroy democracy to prove it, too?


We were stranded here by the Plutocrats that removed 'work' from the USA and now we are suppose to be resurrected by the same people that threw it away in the first place?  Where does that add up? Our cities are suppose to sell assets, abandon democracy and relinquish treasuries in order to 'find a way.' What is happening to this country? How can it be tolerated?


Governor Snyder worked with the brain trust of Michigan universities whom built a company out of genius and then sold the company to Wall Street and exported it out of Michigan. This man can actually be trusted to rescue cities? Destroying democracies is not the answer. Not even close. If he had a record of rescuing companies and putting Michiganders back to work I could understand how people would see hope within his abilities, but, that wasn't at all the case, what did everyone believe was going to happen?

Published: Friday, March 23, 2012, 6:35 PM     

Updated: Friday, March 23, 2012, 8:20 PM

Flint, MI -- Mayor Dayne Walling (click title to entry - thank you) and the Flint City Council officially regained their power to govern the city today, but their newly rediscovered authority could last mere days.

The state of Michigan is appealing to a higher court the Tuesday court ruling that invalidated Gov. Rick Snyder's appointment of Flint emergency manager Michael Brown.

In court briefs filed today, the state asked the Court of Appeals to suspend Ingham County Circuit Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina's order barring the emergency manager from office. Aquilina ruled the state violated the Open Meetings Act in appointing Brown....

The court granted a motion for immediate consideration of the appeal, said treasury spokesman Caleb Buhs, and could make a decision as soon as Monday....

Schools are stranded with overcrowding and no answers. This is the USA?

There is no federal program that can repair our children's educations if the infrastructure is not a priority.  The 'real' American Job Act provided for rebuilding our infrastructure, repairing schools, building new ones where they are needed. Where have our priorities gone?


I was never educated in a school trailer.  Not one day in my career did I ever attend a class in a trailer.  Not one day.


The stress of overcrowding has to add to the pressures that cause bullying and violence. It obviously adds to poor outcomes for children and no doubt early dropouts from high school.

By Paul Takahashi (contact)

Published Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 | 2 a.m.

Updated Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 | 3:03 a.m.

Every weekday morning (click title to entry - thank you) Tiffany Leard walks 10 minutes from her Henderson home to Del Webb Middle School located less than a mile away.

Next year, the 11-year-old sixth-grader might be bussed more than three miles away to Bob Miller Middle School if her neighborhood is rezoned under a Clark County School District proposal to alleviate overcrowding at Del Webb.

The attendance zone proposal baffles Tiffany’s father, Kelley Leard, who moved his family from Summerlin to Henderson eight years ago specifically for the area schools — ranked among the best in the valley. Never did he fathom his house — located in the housing development just next to Del Webb — would be rezoned to any other school....

There is this incredible phenomena that has accompanied the housing bubble. It is the reality of homeless children and their ability to maintain some degree of normalcy to learn and at least grown out of their stranding in the USA educational system.


Oddly, though, it is not a new phenomena.

Principal Leadership Magazine, Vol. 4, Number 8, May 2004

Defining and Identifying Homeless Youth (click here)

According to federal law, homeless children include those who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. McKinney-Vento recognizes a wide range of living situations as homelessness, such as frequent mobility or living in shared housing (often a crowded residence with several other families), motels, cars, parks, makeshift housing, or shelters.

Unless students are directly referred to the school as homeless students, staff members will often need to make judgment calls to identify homeless students and offer assistance. Although some students will volunteer their personal information, many homeless students will make oblique references to where they are staying. Students may also indirectly indicate that they are homeless through changes in their habits and appearance, such as increased sleepiness; wearing the same clothes frequently or other personal care issues; a decreasing quality of school work; and most often, and absences from school.

While it is important to respect students' right to privacy, it is also essential for homeless students to know their legal rights under McKinney-Vento. Homeless students should be offered every opportunity to continue to attend their schools of origin and have access to all other appropriate services to help them achieve in school.

The American food supply, listeria, e.coli and now pink slime.

Children are a commodity, too?

By JESS BIDGOOD

Published: March 24, 2012

BOSTON — Andy Gomez, a ninth grader at Brighton High School, was not sure why hamburgers and meatballs had disappeared from the cafeteria, but he was not happy about it. “Today I just ate peanut butter and jelly,” he said. “I don’t like the chicken patty.” 

The absence of ground beef at lunch last week — at Brighton High and 43 other public schools here — could be explained by a peek into the freezer, where 21 boxes of ground beef products sat, cordoned off from the rest of the meat by a clinical-looking cover of white paper reading “Do not use.”...

Are our children stranded with the poor quality of food in the USA? 

Have we no pride anymore in providing 'the best' for our children? 

Have we become so demoralized by 'accepting' what comes our way that we can't see the horrids of nightmares before they occur? There was a time in the USA when this was unthinkable.

Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 (click here)

A nation abandoned to sugar surges.

Sugar coated (click title to entry - thank you)

We're drowning in high fructose corn syrup. Do the risks go beyond our waistline?

Kim Severson, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, February 18, 2004

An overweight America may be fixated on fat and obsessed with carbs, but nutritionists say the real problem is much sweeter -- we're awash in sugar.
Not just any sugar, but high fructose corn syrup.
The country eats more sweetener made from corn than from sugarcane or beets, gulping it down in drinks as well as in frozen food and baked goods. Even ketchup is laced with it....

As gym classes dwindle, how can kids keep fit? (click here)

Parents must chart the course, experts say, by modeling healthy habits

updated 8/9/2005 5:49:36 AM ET 

By Jacqueline StensonMSNBC contributor

With schools cutting back on physical education classes — and some eliminating them altogether — the prospects for getting exercise during the day aren’t great for many kids heading back to school this fall.

So what’s a parent to do to make sure their children get the exercise they need?

For starters, don’t rely too much on gym class, experts say. While some schools are updating PE to include in-line skating, elliptical trainers, wall climbing and other popular activities, more schools are reducing or stopping their PE programs.

“Unfortunately, physical education is one of the first things that gets cut when there’s a budget crunch,” says Cedric Bryant, chief exercise physiologist at the American Council on Exercise in San Diego.

And even when gym class is offered regularly, it’s almost never enough to meet the new federal guidelines that children get at least an hour of physical activity on most days of the week....

Stranded, what choice is there?

It’s Official: The Crash of the U.S. Economy has begun (click title to entry - thank you)

by Richard C. Cook

Global Research


June 14, 2007


It’s official. Mark your calendars. The crash of the U.S. economy has begun. It was announced the morning of Wednesday, June 13, 2007, by economic writers Steven Pearlstein and Robert Samuelson in the pages of the Washington Post, one of the foremost house organs of the U.S. monetary elite.

Pearlstein’s column was titled, “The Takeover Boom, About to Go Bust” and concerned the extraordinary amount of debt vs. operating profits of companies currently subject to leveraged buyouts.

In language remarkably alarmist for the usually ultra-bland pages of the Post, Pearlstein wrote, “It is impossible to predict when the magic moment will be reached and everyone finally realizes that the prices being paid for these companies, and the debt taken on to support the acquisitions, are unsustainable. When that happens, it won't be pretty. Across the board, stock prices and company valuations will fall. Banks will announce painful write-offs, some hedge funds will close their doors, and private-equity funds will report disappointing returns. Some companies will be forced into bankruptcy or restructuring.”

Further, “Falling stock prices will cause companies to reduce their hiring and capital spending while governments will be forced to raise taxes or reduce services, as revenue from capital gains taxes declines. And the combination of reduced wealth and higher interest rates will finally cause consumers to pull back on their debt-financed consumption. It happened after the junk-bond and savings-and-loan collapses of the late 1980s. It happened after the tech and telecom bust of the late '90s. And it will happen this time.”...

In 1993 the people of the USA were already stranded in their health care.

A generation later, the circumstances of the American people were no better, but, actually worse.  The people had gotten used to the mistreatment of the health care industry and it was a chronic struggle to make ends meet while obtaining life saving care, if one was lucky enough not to be dropped.


There was a time in the USA a health insurance policy was considered simply a benefit expected when working a job. It cost minimal or no cost as an employee, had a deductible of $100, a 20% deductible up to the first $1000 and then fully covered after that amount.  That is unheard of now.  What occurred was the 'idea' of funding the nation with HMOs that would be cheap, excellent care. It was the time of Richard Nixon. The disaster continued and Americans found they could not afford either the insurance or the health care and people died.  


They died from abandonment of their providers or lack of health care insurance. The American people lost their security in their ability of obtaining health care because they were stranded by Wall Street. If their policies no longer turned a profit because of ill health, they were no longer a worthy commodity.


The examples of government intervention to temper the disaster spans decades including SCHIP, Medicare and Medicaid.


The examples of government regulation of consumer commodities also spans decades including rubber, gas and butter during WWII. The government has the power to act in protection of the people including regulation of commerce when it becomes adverse to life.

In the words of Judge Laurence Silberman, (click title to entry - thank you) a leading conservative who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush, the lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that most Americans have to either carry health insurance or pay slightly more income taxes have no basis “in either the text of the Constitution or Supreme Court precedent.” Nevertheless, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit broke with three other appeals courts to hold the law unconstitutional last August.

The 11th Circuit decision was wrong, and the Supreme Court will reject it. Here are the three reasons why.

- Congress has broad power to regulate the national economy

Nearly 200 years of Supreme Court precedent establish that the Affordable Care Act's insurance coverage provision is constitutional. A provision of the Constitution known as the Commerce Clause gives Congress power to “regulate commerce … among the several states.” And many Supreme Court decisions hold that Congress has broad power to enact laws that substantially affect prices, marketplaces, or other economic transactions—including transactions in the national health care market....

- The minimum coverage provision holds the Affordable Care Act together

The Constitution also gives Congress the power “[t]o make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution” its power to regulate interstate commerce. As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia explains, this means “where Congress has the authority to enact a regulation of interstate commerce, it possesses every power needed to make that regulation effective.”...

- Congress has broad leeway in how it raises money

Congress also has the authority to “lay and collect taxes” under the Constitution. This power to tax also supports the minimum coverage provision, which works by requiring individuals who do not carry health insurance to pay slightly more income taxes. Taxpayers who refuse insurance must pay more in taxes while those who do carry insurance are exempt from this new tax. For this reason, the law is no different than dozens of longstanding tax exemptions, including the mortgage interest tax deduction, which allows people who take out home mortgages to pay lower taxes than people who do not.