See the following posts at StateHouseCall.org: Health Care Freedom in Virginia by James Lansberry and Freedom of Health Care Act Advances in Tennessee by John LaPlante. In Virginia both the House and Senate have passed ...
From the Washington Post's Breaking News Blog:
Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party's efforts in Washington to reform health care. ...
Each of three similar bills that passed the state Senate on Monday ...
Originally published in the Aurora Daily Sentinel, January 29th, 2010. This version has links to references.
Why we're "crazy" about health care choice
By Brian T. Schwartz and Linda Gorman
Sentinel Editor Dave Perry dismisses the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly have lost" their ...
From the Idaho Reporter:
In a contentious hearing Thursday morning in the House State Affairs Committee, the Idaho Health Freedom Act (IFHA), sponsored by Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden, and co-sponsored by Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle, and Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise, passed the committee on a 13-5 party line vote.
During his testimony ...
On January 15 Jon Caldara submitted the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative to the legislative council "to exempt Colorado from the mandates of Obama Care." Read the full text. Several media outlets mention this (click on link for full article):
The Denver Post:
Independence Institute president Jon Caldara on Friday ...
...It's good to remember that the states created the federal government and not the other way around. As Obama Care becomes closer to reality, we in Colorado have the right to say "No." This is a chance for freedom loving people from across the state to come together and send ...
Update: Become a fan of this cause on on the Defend Colorado from ObamaCare Facebook page.
From the Denver Post:
Coloradans will likely be asked in November to blunt the impact of federal health-insurance reform with a state constitutional amendment that would attempt to undo some of what Congress is trying to ...
Should supporters of health care freedom try to emulate Arizona's Proposition 101 in other states, it's worth learning from this measure that almost passed. I suspect the arguments against 101 described below are disingenuous. Even if the proposition were tweaked to make the arguments inapplicable, the same people would object ...
