Slavery is a social-economic system under which certain persons — known as slaves — are deprived of personal freedom and compelled to perform labour or services.

Hmmm…

The only way to really stay clear of EMTALA is not to have hospital privileges. Though as an ER doc, that’s not a great solution for me!

It isn’t an absolutely perfect answer, but it sure beats the present system. And some patients who have money but who abuse the ED and don’t pay might think twice when their ER services come with a personal federal tax bill, one they can’t so easily skip away from.

It is in this manner that the federal government has destroyed what was left of state soveriegnity and intruded into all areas of American life, something which the constitution originally clearly prohibited.

Before the federal government can play this bribery-extorsion game, using our own money to reduce us to servitude, it must start legislating in an area. That is where the real constitutional violation occurs, when the feds first start any kind of legislation in area where it was not expressly given the power to do.

The 10th amendment of the bill of rights is plain:

“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.”

Being an amendment, this language constrains the reading of the body to narrow, not expansive language. It logically prohibits expansive interpretations of the body where narrow interpretations are viable.

Roosevelt, controlling court appointments for 12 years, shifted the entire judiciary to one which has routinely ingnored the 10th amendment. Now, all commerce is interstate commerce. Even things that aren’t commerce are interstate commerce, and the 10th amendment has been interpreted out of existence–essentially repealed without being repealed. We have built 80% of federal law over the last 60 years on an unconstitutional interpretation of the commmerce clause to allow legislation in virtually every area of life.

That is why Rehnquist was such a threat to some, he, in a small way, reintroduced the 10th amendment in the back door. Bork threatened to do so directly and so had to be stopped.

Because if you look at the body of the constitution, it says nothing about establishing a social insurance program. And a plain reading of the 10th tells us that clearly, social security along with it’s stepchild, Medicare, has been unconstitutional all along.

We allowed the federal government off the leash 60 years ago, now it is really too late to do much about it other than watch the surprise on peoples faces as they slowly over decades come to realize that they sold their freedom for illusory security.

And enough docs have been investigated and fined under this law for us to know from bitter experience that it is a physician responsibility!