Amendment 63 : health care choice not a "PR stunt"
Is the Colorado Right to Health Care Choice Initiative a "public relations stunt," as a political science professor says? No, it's not. Should a lawsuit against the mandatory insurance provision of HR 3590 succeed, the Feds will pressure states into enforcing ...
A couple of updates on the legal challenged to ObamaCare health control legislation (HR 3590):
The first is by Ilya Shapiro at Cato:Update on the Legal Challenges to Obamacare. A particularly notable section:
At least one enterprising analyst [Greg Scandlen] has determined that the 2,400-page bill lacks a severability clause. ...
Dave Kopel notes:
Among the lawsuits filed against Obamacare is a class action in the Southern District of Mississippi. Class representatives, for residents of Mississippi who do not wish to be subject to the health insurance purchase mandate, include State Senator Chris McDaniel and Lt. Governor Phil Bryant. The complaint is available ...
In December I blogged about law professor Randy Barnett's article published by the Heritage Foundation on why mandatory insurance is unconstitutional. Earlier this week The Wall Street Journal published Barnett's article on how supporters of the new health control legislation are changing tactics:
First Congress said it was a regulation of ...
From the CU Law website:
Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Wolf Law, Room 204 (directions)
For Public; Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni
Speakers: Dave Kopel, Attorney and Research Director of The Independence Institute, and Jean Dubofsky, former Colorado Supreme Court Justice
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has decided to joing ...
From the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc:
On March 26th, 2010 AAPS filed suit to invalidate the new massive health care bill, which passed the House by only 4 votes on a party-line vote (with 34 Democrats voting against it). Forcing patients to buy insurance that ...
From Jon Caldara:
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers joins our Research Director Dave Kopel to discuss the lawsuit he and 12 others State Attorneys General have jointly filed, that claims the health care bill recently signed by President Obama is unconstitutional because it violates the 10th Amendment. ...
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 ...
