(MurraySabrin.com)
On April 10 The Record published economics professor Gerald Friedman’s column, “Take it from an economist: Medicare for All is most sensible fix.” And on the front page of the same edition, the following article was published: “NJ doctor, 23 others charged and Medicare fraud case,” what federal officials say was a $1.2 billion scheme.
There are so many errors in Professor Friedman’s essay one doesn’t know where to begin. First, Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution does not mention healthcare one bit. In other words, the federal government has been engaging in unconstitutional activities by being involved in the people’s health care for decades.
Thus, expanding health care by providing “Medicare for All” would be an egregious expansion of federal government’s power. Read more