If you could propose the 28th amendment to the United States, what would it be?
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My exact thought
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Repeal the destructive 16th and 17th Amendments, first, before talking about new ones.
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Yeah sure every state can have better healthcare without the need of proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution.
There is the federal government and the state government.
Every state is autonomous, meaning that every state has its own laws.
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We already have very clear Federal laws forbidding cartel pricing - we just need to enforce them against the Healthcare industry.
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We already have very clear Federal laws forbidding cartel pricing - we just need to enforce them against the Healthcare industry.
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Repeal the destructive 16th and 17th Amendments, first, before talking about new ones.
Look at how the 2024 presidential election would be like if you repealed the 17th amendment.
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Because you get your news from legacy media.
Anti-trust law applies to the healthcare industry, too - two separate Supreme Court decisions have upheld this. But the industry spends a fortune buying the elections of 17th Amendment Senators to make sure these laws never get enforced against them.
TheHeretic Why do you want to repeal the 17th Amendment? Is it to change the Electoral College map?
That isn't to say new legislation beyond the current anti-trust statutes is not needed. Here is a good - and rather lengthy - background piece explaining why our system urgently needs to be fixed, and how to do it: The Bill To Permanently Fix Health Care For All
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TheHeretic Why do you want to repeal the 17th Amendment? Is it to change the Electoral College map?
It has turned the US Senate races into 100 mini-Presidential elections, dominated by massive out-of-state spending. The Constitutional purpose of Senators is to represent their states in DC - not be DC's (and their biggest donors') representatives to the states. The 17th Amendment was intended to end corrupt cronyism in the selection of Senators by state legislatures, but there are far better ways to do that. The end result of direct elections has nationalized Senate races and hurt the rights of states. The 17th would have done less damage if it had simply eliminated the Senate altogether.
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