Sen. Ben Cardin Contradicts Himself on Small Business Health Insurance Relief
US Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD), filmed at an event in Salisbury, MD (that was specifically NOT) a Townhall meeting. In it, he discusses the problems facing small businesses seeking to get health insurance for their employees, but then contradicts himself when confronted with his record of opposing the very reforms that would have solved the problems that he laid out.
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Great video — …
Great video –excellent job the audience member did sticking the Senator to the wall. Must politicians lie?
Sen has such a …
Sen has such a childish understanding of business. Dems starting with FDR in 1942 tax code changes, medicare in 66 and in 73 with a nail in the coffin Sen Kennedy leftist HMO idea eliminated individual options in health insurance and drove up costs.
They created this health cost monster.
Lets give them and this knowitall another chance.
In this instance, …
In this instance, seeing as how we as a people ceded the power to the federal government to control interstate commerce, and constrained the individual states from acting to restrict trade between them, federal preemption of state insurance laws in order to ease interstate insurance commerce IS constitutional.
States’ rights ARE …
States’ rights ARE important, indeed, but remember, ours is a system of “Dual Sovereign Federalism” in which we have ceded certain powers (carefully enumerated and narrowly constrained) to the federal government at the expense of individual and state power.
That’s what the 9th and 10th Amendments state, that all that is nor surrendered is retained, and that the enumeration of certain rights isn’t meant to disparage or negate the grand expanse of rights.
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Federal law should …
Federal law should not preempt state law. That is one thing we can all cling to right now. States are standing up saying if you pass a bill that is unconstitutional we will not follow it. We need states rights even if some of the states make bad decisions. States rights are important.
Wow, he just talks …
Wow, he just talks over you, with jibber jabber…the louder person wins I guess.
Well, I’m from MD and I’m lookin for this next meeting and I WILL be the louder one this time!