THE STORY BEHIND HEALTH CARE COMPACTS
The Constitution established a federal government, with limited and enumerated powers, and reserved to the states or to the people those powers not granted to the federal government. (10th Amendment)
One power that properly belongs at the state level (maybe) is the power to regulate Health Care. However, the federal government has preempted state action in this area. It’s called Obamacare.
Under Obamacare, every facet of health care will be under the control of the government. Medicare and Medicaid, and each individual payer will be subject to, eventually, a one size fits all medical plan.
A Health Care Compact might be an answer. This is a concept that is being worked on by several TEA Party groups, most notably Philadelphia TEA Party Patriots. It’s an interstate compact – which is simply an agreement between two or more states that is consented to by Congress.
So far, Georgia and Tennessee have compacts that have arrived on their respective governors’ desks.
Compact member states get funding from the federal government each year to pay for health care. The funding is mandatory spending, and not subject to annual appropriations. Each state’s funding is based on the federal funds spent in their state on health care in 2010. Each state will confirm their funding before joining this Compact. This funding level will be adjusted annually for changes in population and inflation.
The compact creates an advisory commission to gather and publish health care cost data, study various health care issues, and make non-binding recommendations to member states.
Member states can amend this Compact with approval of the members, and no further Congressional consent is needed.
Any member state can withdraw from the Compact at any time.
The true benefits of a Health Care Compact are tremendous.
When an interstate compact is approved by Congress, it becomes federal law, and supersedes previous federal law.
The Compact moves the responsibility and authority for regulating healthcare from the federal government to the states.
It renders Obamacare inoperable in states that join it and pass replacement legislation. It is not, strictly speaking, repeal. It just allows member states to suspend its operation in their states.
It doesn’t conflict with the efforts by state attorneys general, state legislators and members of congress to repeal or modify the health care bill.
The biggest win is this: Federal law defines the administration’s scope of activity. Because the HCC transfers authority to the states, health care laws enacted by states under the HCC supersede federal regulations. This means that even if future administrations take action, states can simply pass laws that supersede those regulations. Congress still retains the ultimate control, and can pass laws that undermine state regulation. However, the compact states have a strong blocking position in Congress, minimizing the potential for troublesome meddling.
The Health Care Compact between states ensures that if future administrations bring up something like Obamacare ever again (and they will) it will be dead on arrival.
The end game we seek is as follows: Defund, repeal and replace; tort reform and policy portability and competition across state lines. 
Until we get it to the end game, Health Care Compacts might be an answer.
AGENDA 21, ONE WORLD ORDER AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Agenda 21 and The Livable Communities Act
In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development formulated “Agenda 21.” This ‘agenda’ called for ‘sustainable development,’ the integration of economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity (social justice), and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Proponents of Agenda 21 (178 nations) insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction. Agenda 21 was signed by George HW Bush for the United States. Every president since has endorsed the Agenda.
Agenda 21 cites the root of the world’s problems to be “Judeo-Christian religious traditions” and can be summed up this way:
QUOTE: “Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by EVERY person on earth.. .it calls for specific changes in the activities of ALL people. . Effective execution ...will REQUIRE a profound reorientation of ALL humans, unlike anything the world has ever seen...”UNQUOTE
You’ve heard the buzzwords: Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Green Jobs, Going Green, Alternative Energy, Regional Planning, sustainable farming – the list goes on.
What it means is control of everything from the windows in your home, the type of heat you use, how much food you eat, the car you drive, the light bulbs you use, the land you own, what you do with that land, the animals you raise and the crops you grow - All of this falls under Agenda 21.
In 2009, Sen. Chris Dodd sponsored The Livable Communities Act. It is the American left’s contribution to Agenda 21. It establishes the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities (OSHC), a three pronged attack on the American way of life through the office of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency. It’s also hidden in Obamacare. In those three departments, every phase of our lives can be controlled. And they will be.
Dodd’s act authorizes appropriation of grant money to study and report on energy efficiency, coordination of land use, housing, transportation, infrastructure, and environmental planning. It calls for the identity of “potential regional partnerships for developing and implementing a comprehensive regional plan...and to “conduct or update housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy and environmental assessments....”
Our government, or rather the UN with the help of our government, is working to take control of every aspect of our lives.
Agenda 21 and The Livable Communities Act is already underway in this country. Want proof? How about the American Community Survey? If you’ve gotten one, then you know that it’s one of the devices used to get the information needed to implement the plan.
Who are you? Where do you live? How much money do you make and what is the source of that income? What’s your level of education? How big is your home? How many bathrooms? How many bedrooms? How much is your mortgage? How much do you pay for insurance? How do you heat your home? How much do you pay? On how many acres do you live? These are some of the questions in the survey.
The real aim of Agenda 21 and the Livable Communities Act is a redistribution of your wealth, the creation of a Marxist state in every country on the planet and the end of America as we know it.
Our local governments are being encouraged to sign on. The lure is grant money for local “projects.” Communities across the country are being encouraged to accept this grant money so that inroads can be made by these federal agencies to implement the Livable Community agenda.
We urge everyone to do a web search on Agenda 21 and then on The Livable Communities Act. Learn what they are. We urge you to find out if your community is accepting these grants, thereby compromising your freedom. Question your county commissioners and ask them if they’ve been approached by HUD, DOT or EPA about ‘green jobs’, ‘windmills’, ‘sustainable farming’ and the like. If your building codes have changed, if new zoning is suddenly implemented, find out if Agenda 21 and the Livable Communities Act are in play. If your community is a dues paying member of ICLEI - International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives - demand that they withdraw from that membership. You’ll know by that membership that the cancer of Agenda 21 is spreading in your community. In order to kill it we have to first learn the facts. We need to research it, know the details and discover the non-Governmental players in our community.
If you want further proof of the inroads being made, just watch TV. Do you know that cute commercial for bathroom tissue that features four blue bears? Do you hear the youngest bear saying “now that we are using less......?”
