by Jacque' Stoddard

Created on: December 19, 2011   Last Updated: December 21, 2011

Obama's nationalized health care law takes away patient-doctor confidentiality and governs care from birth to death for every American. For this reason, I believe that the United States Supreme Court should allow the oral arguments to be televised.

When the law was passed, most Americans were against it. They voiced their concerns. They called for transparency. President Obama made a promise to the American people that every meeting and every hearing having to do with his health care plan would be open and televised on C-SPAN. He broke that promise to the extreme. Americans were stunned when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said 'that we would have to pass the bill to find out what was in it.' Many objected to her statement and called for more time to study the mountainous bill. Rather than openness, the whole bill was crafted behind closed doors. It was rushed through and signed into law even as the American people voiced their opposition.

Congressman Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts has recently admitted that there are death panels in the bill. Frank said that the death panels need to be taken out of the law before it is fully implemented in 2013. If a liberal democrat is concerned about appointed bureaucrats making life or death decisions for every American, we should all be very concerned.   

With health insurance costs rising steadily, the full implementation of Obama's nationalized health care is set to cause the cost to skyrocket.

The nation should be able to watch the oral arguments in order that they make up their mind about the law without the filter of the media. It should be shown on C-SPAN without commentary. This is the one way that Americans can hear the facts about something that will alter our personal freedom as no other law has.

Many are still stunned that the law was passed. It is the largest government overreach in U.S. history. The main portion of the law that the Supreme Court will hear is the individual mandate. If the court rules that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, it means the end to the entire health care law. The nationalized health care system can only work if everyone is forced to participate.

The impact on every American for generations to come should weigh heavy on the Supreme Court's decision as to whether or not it should be televised. 

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