clipped from www.americanthinker.com

The question to be explored is this. By what authority does the federal government intervene in health care?

Ah, the stumper! This is the kind of question that reduces arguments to sputtering. The of course-ness factor takes over and results in a virtual cognitive interruptus. The idea that government (whatever that is) exists to fix problems (whatever they are) is so ingrained in the common mentality that the very question of what is proper is not even considered.

The purpose of the United States Constitution as written, was twofold: first, to form a more perfect union of the states after the chaos experienced under the Articles of Confederation, and second, to limit the powers of the new federal government and thus avoid the tyranny into which history had shown a sovereign national government had always developed.

Amendment X

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.