Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Health insurance provided by corporations is unconstitutional

Health insurance provided by corporations is unconstitutional Based on the recent Supreme Court decision, corporations act as individuals with a distinct identity. Labor executed by a worker is compensated only by payment for that labor from this individual/corporation. These individuals/corporations also have a government sponsored (through tax cuts & subsidies) incentive to provide health insurance to employees.

Because health insurance is not a contractual part of any compensation, the individuals/corporations attain a slaveholder and slave relationship with the employee. This slaveholder and slave relationship also extends to the family members of the employee. This extension to the family of the employee creates a further slavery relationship that creates an undo, illegal and unconstitutional burden on the worker to the individuals/corporations.

Employer provided healthcare by individuals/corporations is a clear violation of the 13th amendment against slavery, because it creates a slaveowner relationship between the individual/corporation employer (slaveowner) and the employee (slave) that also creates a further slave/slaveholder relationship with the employee's family that is also a violation of the 13th Amendment.

The federal government is set to further enhance and expand the slaveholder and slave relationship that exists. When there is no legal or contractual reason for an employee to be provided health insurance by the individual/corporation, the government has created and enhanced the current slave/slaveholder relationship that exists within American corporate and business culture. This extension of the slaveholder and slave relationship by activities of the federal government violates the 13th Amendment to the constitution.

Of course, the slaveholder as the individual/corporation maintains an advantage in an employment relationship that extends beyond rational and ordinary compensation received by the employee and makes the employee a slave. Given the recent Supreme Court decision recognizing the individual identity of corporations as individuals with 1st Amendment rights to influence politics, those individuals clearly cannot be given the rights of a slaveholder as clearly abolished in the 13th Amendment of the Constitution.

I understand that my Constitutional argument is simplistic and dogmatic. I just plain and simply disagree with how, why or where a person chooses to work should affect his/her health or that of his/her family. The Constitution clearly states that is the role of government to "promote the general welfare". The USA should have government provided health care for all citizens.

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