Colo. will join lawsuit to block health care bill
March 23rd, 2010 | by Brian Schwartz |With a huge photo of Jon Caldara, The Denver Post reports:
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers is joining a national lawsuit to try to block federal health care legislation—over the objections of Gov. Bill Ritter and the Democrats who control the state Legislature.
Suthers said Monday he would join fellow Republican attorneys general in at least nine other states in opposing the bill because he thinks a provision requiring most Americans to purchase insurance is an unconstitutional expansion of federal power. Congress has the right to control interstate commerce but can’t force people to participate in commerce, he said.
Read the whole article: Colo. will join lawsuit to block health care take-over. The article include a poll on the lawsuit: show your support!
Check out Randy Barnett‘s article in the Washington Post, Is health-care reform constitutional?
the individual mandate extends the commerce clause’s power beyond economic activity, to economic inactivity. That is unprecedented. While Congress has used its taxing power to fund Social Security and Medicare, never before has it used its commerce power to mandate that an individual person engage in an economic transaction with a private company. Regulating the auto industry or paying “cash for clunkers” is one thing; making everyone buy a Chevy is quite another.
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tags: Constitution & health care, mandatory insurance, repeal ObamaCare
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