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Obama’s health care Part 5
Mississippi Center for Public Policy and The Federalist Society present: Is ObamaCare Good for Patients, Doctors, Employers, & State Budgets?
Above you will see a clip from Mississippi concerning health care. My mother’s parents lived in Mississippi and I grew up going down there to visit my cousins. They were football fans and we used to go see Ole Miss take on Miss St many times in Jackson. Emory Bellard was the coach at Miss State from 1979 to 1985. Dave Campbell wrote an excellent article remembering the life of Bellard.
Emory Bellard will be remembered as the man who created the Wishbone.
As a member of Darrell Royal’s Texas Longhorn coaching staff in 1968, Bellard developed the triple-option offense that utilized three running backs lined up in an inverted “U” formation behind the quarterback.
A year later, when Texas won the national championship on the way to 30 straight wins, Bellard’s offense changed the look of college football and brought a huge number of high school teams along for the ride…
Bellard, who was head coach at A&M from 1972-78, was honored at the Texas Sports Hall of Fame last October, where his players, assistant coaches, opposing coaches, family and friends sang his praise.
The Hall of Fame in Waco opened a permanent exhibit dedicated to Bellard, a 1995 inductee…
The 12th Man Kickoff Team later honored Bellard at its annual banquet. The former A&M coach was recognized at halftime of the Aggies’ win over Nebraska.
“As a young football coach, you couldn’t have a better mentor than Coach Bellard,” Slocum said. “He was an outstanding football coach, but more than that, he was a great human being. Being able to see how he handled people and situations was a great learning opportunity for me. He always thought and saw the best in people. He loved his players, and his players loved playing for him.”
Slocum had a chance last week to talk with Bellard.
“[Coach Bellard] told me, ‘I’ve led a great life. I got to do exactly what I wanted to do at some great institutions and with some great young men,'” Slocum said.
In seven years at A&M, Bellard went 48-27, leading the Aggies to two 10-win seasons. His Aggies went 10-2 and shared the Southwest Conference title in 1975, and Bellard earned the American Football Coaches Association award as the College Coach of the Year. In 1976, the Aggies closed the season ranked seventh nationally after beating Florida in the Sun Bowl 37-14 to finish 10-2 again…
Emory Bellard took over as head coach at Mississippi State from 1979-85. In seven seasons in Starkville, Miss., he posted a record of 37-42. Two of his teams finished in the Top 20. He coached the Bulldogs to back-to-back bowl games for the first time in school history.
His 1980 team finished 9-3 and beat top-ranked Alabama 6-3, ending Alabama’s 28-game winning streak. By the time Bellard’s teams upset the Crimson Tide, Alabama head coach Bear Bryant had long since installed the Wishbone offense for his attack.
Bellard’s Wishbone revolution became the offense of choice for 14 national championship teams.
- Emory Bellard, who was a head coach at Texas A&M, is credited with helping create the wishbone offense while a UT assistant. / SAEmory Bellard, who was a head coach at Texas A&M, is credited with…
- Emory Bellard, head coach of the Texas A&M Football team during the 1970s. EN File. / SAEmory Bellard, head coach of the Texas A&M Football team during the…
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Ilya Shapiro delivered this testimony on Jan 24, 2011 to the Arkansas House of Representatives. This was later put into a paper “On the Arkansas Health Care Freedom Act and Its Relationship to Obamacare.” He stated:
The strongest legal argument — implicitly supported by the HCFA — attacks the constitutionality of the individual mandate to buy health insurance. “The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States.” Cong. Budget Office, The Budgetary Treatment of an Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance 1 (1994). Nor has it ever said that every man and woman can be fined for declining to participate in the marketplace. And never before have courts had to consider such a breathtaking assertion of raw power under the Commerce Clause. Even at the height of the New Deal, in the infamous case of Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 11 (1942), the federal government claimed “merely” the power to regulate what farmers grew, not to mandate that people become farmers or require people to buy farm products.
But that should not be surprising, because ours is a government of delegated and enumerated powers and the Constitution does not grant Congress the power to force private commercial transactions. Even if the Supreme Court has broadened the scope of congressional authority under the Commerce Clause — it can now reach local activities that have a substantial effect on interstate commerce — never before has it allowed people to face a civil penalty for not buying a particular product.
Stated another way, every exercise of Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce has involved some form of action or transaction engaged in by an individual or legal entity. The government’s theory — that the decision not to buy insurance is an economic one that affects interstate commerce in various ways — would, for the first time ever, permit laws commanding people to engage in economic activity.
Under such a reading, which two judges in other Obamacare cases have alas accepted, Congress would be the sole arbiter of its own powers, the only checks on which would be political. The federal government would have plenary authority to compel activities ranging from eating spinach and joining gyms (in the health care realm) to buying GM cars (as part of an auto bailout). Authority so novel and sweeping would be indistinguishable from a general “police power,” which is irreconcilable with the established principle that Congress has only limited and enumerated powers. As Judge Henry Hudson said in striking down the individual mandate in the Virginia case, “This broad definition of the economic activity subject to congressional regulation lacks logical limitation and is unsupported by Commerce Clause jurisprudence.”
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