Bureaucrat Usurps Congressional Authority Contrary to US Constitution

It is curious that for wasting taxpayer funds on psychiatric treatment under the parity delusion, the human services industrial complex (MA State Rep. Marie Parente's term) means that psychiatric care is paid for the same as physical medical care. For which medical illnesses do people lose their Second Amendment rights? And for which physical illnesses do police and prosecutors describe the person as having a history of a physical illness as they do with persons accused of mental illness?

In his informative book published in 1975 Thinking About Crime, James Q. Wilson, Harvard University Professor of Government said, "Explaining human behavior is a worthwhile endeavor, indeed, for intellectuals it is among the most worthwhile. Those who search for such explanations need not justify their activity by its social utility or its policy implications. Unfortunately, neither intellectuals nor policy makers always understand this. If the government becomes alarmed about crime, it assumes that those who have studied it most deeply can contribute most fully to its solution. Criminologists have rarely sought to show statesmen the error of this assumption." 

The same can be said about psychiatrists, who testify in court and make predictions about the future. They study human behavior more than others. But it does not give them any special knowledge as to why or if people will repeat that behavior. Psychiatrists testify before legislatures and urge them to fund psychiatric treatment making their personal opinions into public policy. That is worthwhile for the psychiatric industry, and the drug industry. It is an enormous waste of taxpayer funds. In this case once again unelected bureaucrats make decisions about funding, which violates the Constitution. Law restricts the authority to make spending decisions to Congress, the House of Representatives. 

The power of the U.S. Congress to tax and spend for the General Welfare is granted under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1, of the U.S. Constitution: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States." That includes not funding laws passed by the Congress. In addition some spending is restricted to state legislatures by the Tenth Amendment. For an unelected bureaucrat to dictate what money is spent is a clear violation of that clause.

[From article]
On Friday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced new regulations mandating health insurers cover mental and behavioral health to the same extent they cover physical health care.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillmatthews/2013/11/11/new-mental-health-mandate-will-make-

obamacare-more-expensive-increase-fraud-and-canceled-policies/
11/11/2013 @ 10:22AM
New Mental Health Mandate Will Make Obamacare More Expensive, Increase Fraud And Canceled Policies