Idaho, Virginia To Sue Over Health Overhaul Measures

"Idaho First to Sign Law Aimed at Health Care Plan" [AP, Mar. 17, 2010]

"[Attorney General] Cuccinelli's Office Confirms Virginia Will Sue Over Health Care" [Washington Post, Mar. 17, 2010]

So the legal challenges to government-imposed health insurance coverage have begun. While Idaho and Virginia are among the first states to vow law suits against the federal government, 36 other states are also considering similar legal action. Taking issue with the violation of individual rights and freedoms that such monstrous legislation would foist upon his constituents, Idaho Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter explained:

"What the Idaho Health Freedom Act says is that the citizens of our state won't be subject to another federal mandate or turn over another part of their life to government control."

Exactly right! Talking heads have long debated the rights of individuals, but government-run health care ratchets the issue up several notches. Such reforms would radically (and forever) alter the relationship of the individual and the government. No longer would your own body be yours - your own body! Instead, the federal government and the approximately 150 new bureaucratic offices would have a say as to what treatment you deserve (if any) and when (if ever). This is a truly radical proposition!

And the Democrats are hell-bent on forcing this into law without fulfilling the constitutional requirement of a vote occurring in both houses of Congress. While the Senate passed the reform bill that is currently in the House, House leaders are seeking to simply deem the bill passed without members actually voting on it (i.e. - the Slaughter rule). It is this constitutional violation that is at the center of Virginia's legal challenge.

In a letter to Speaker Pelosi, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, said, in part:

"I am writing to urge you not to proceed with the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under a so-called "deem and pass" [Slaughter] rule because such a course of action would raise grave constitutional questions. Based upon media interviews and statements which I have seen, you are considering this approach because it might somehow shield members of Congress from taking a recorded vote on an overwhelmingly unpopular Senate bill.

"Should you employ the deem and pass tactic, you expose any act which may pass to yet another constitutional challenge. A bill of this magnitude should not be passed using this maneuver. As the President noted last week, the American people are entitled to an up or down vote."

So let's see...the majority of Americans are against this legislation, states are preparing to sue the federal government over this legislation, one-third of our physicians will quit their professions over this legislation, and yet this administration and congressional Democrats continue full steam ahead like Captain Smith of the Titanic (and we're the passengers, no less!).

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