Scott Brown Starts to Back Down on Obamacare Repeal and Sounds Like Billy Long: I Have Been Warning You

More insight to what the Republicans idea of repeal and replace came from Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown yesterday. Guess what, I am even more convinced we aren't getting rid of Obamacare, even with Republicans gaining more power.

Sens. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) will introduce legislation Thursday allowing states to opt out of the controversial individual-mandate requirement of the health care reform law far sooner than they would under the law passed by Democrats earlier this year.

"States shouldn't be forced by the federal government to adopt a one-size-fits all health care plan. Each state's health care needs are different," Brown says in a statement accompanying the legislation. "Our bill provides flexibility, and allows states like Massachusetts to opt out of portions of the health care law."

The bill is a significant step on both sides of the aisle. It's an effort by a Senate Democrat to ease one of the law's requirements. And it's the first Republican-sponsored effort to modify—rather than repeal—a provision in the law.

Only portions of the healthcare bill Mr. Brown? Portions? This reminds me of Congressman-elect Republican Billy Long who has no problem telling people what he loves about Obamacare as he tells you he is going to repeal it in the same breath.



Mr. Brown, since you were elected on the wave of Tea Party anger, maybe you should consider the Constitutional reality of this. There is not Constitutional authority for the federal government to regulate and provide healthcare like Obamacare does. In such, you should consider the 10th Amendment.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.


Therefore, Mr. Brown, the states shouldn't need your repeal and replace legislation you introduced to the Senate. Thus, Mr. Brown, telling the states they can opt out of only portions of these new federal mandates isn't for you to decide. Each state has the ability because of the 10th Amendment to opt out of all of these federal mandates because there was no Constitutional authority to create these mandates Mr. Brown.