David Catron at Health Care BS quotes Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz on whether ObamaCare authorizes government to require citizens to buy health insurance:
We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance … What we’re doing is that you will be in a different tax ...
TheHill.com asks:
Thirteen state attorneys general have filled a lawsuit claiming that the new healthcare reforms are unconstitutional. Is this a real legal challenge or a political stunt?
I hate to say it, but Justin Raimondo, editorial director of Antiwar.com, nails it:
A great deal if not most of the ...
Writes Paul Hsieh, MD in the Denver Post:
... But no one should be surprised that under government-controlled health insurance, medical coverage decisions will be based on political considerations. Rather, the recent wrangling over abortion will be a mere preview of special-interest battles to come as health ...
The Denver Post reports:
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said Monday that he was joining with attorneys general from at least 11 states who are mounting a legal challenge to the health care overhaul [sic] that Congress passed Sunday. ...
One of the powers delegated to the federal government ...
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 ...
Jacon Sullum explains at Reason.com:
"We allow the insurance industry to run wild in this country," President Obama declared on Monday. "We can't have a system that works better for the insurance companies than it does for the American people."
Yet Obama's plan to tame health insurers would boost their business, ...
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 [Colorado Amendment 63] as "crazy" and says its supporters "clearly ...
From the AP:
Opponents of the health care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the Capitol but in the court across the street.
A small but vocal contingent of legal scholars and many Republican lawmakers argues ...
