What Does the Federal Government Have to Do With MAHA?
Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the CAPA conference. The Lancer conference is being held on November 22-24 in Dallas. The CAPA conference is now being held online. There is also another excellent JFK conference on the same weekend sponsored by the JFK Historical Group. All three of them are fantastic JFK-assassination-related conferences. I highly recommend registering for all three and then picking and choosing which sessions you would like to attend at all three conferences. The registration prices are moderate and it’s a great way to support three great conferences. I will have some of my JFK books at my presentations at the Lancer conference to autograph and sell at a discounted price. I hope to see you all there!
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Conservatives and some right-wing libertarians are very excited about the prospect of having Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., be appointed to a healthcare-related position in the Trump administration. Some of them are already referring to Kennedy as Trump’s “healthcare czar,” a term that conjures up images of pre-communist Russian czars who exercised omnipotent, dictatorial-like powers over the Russian people. In fact, in an indication that Trump might well vest Kennedy with unrestrained healthcare powers, Trump stated, “I’m gonna let him go wild on health. I’m gonna let him go wild on the food. I’m gonna let him go wild on medicines.”
The rationale for all this healthcare right-wing excitement? Their excitement is based Kennedy’s declaration that he intends to MAHA — Make America Healthy Again.
A question immediately arises: What authority does the federal government have to MAHA? Federal powers do not come from the president or the Congress. They come from the Constitution. If a power is not enumerated in the Constitution, then the federal government is prohibited from exercising it.
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If one does a very careful search of the Constitution, one notices one glaring omission: The Framers did not vest the federal government with any power to MAHA. In fact, the Constitution does not vest the federal government with any healthcare powers whatsoever, including the power to provide healthcare (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid) or the
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