Posted on 07/26/2010 11:08:02 PM PDT by Libloather
PLF and Iowa Citizen (Former Combat Medic) Challenge Federal Health Care Mandate
Source: Pacific Legal Foundation
Monday July 26, 2010, 1:32 pm EDT
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The new federal health care law violates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause by ordering individual citizens to buy a good or service (health insurance) on pain of financial punishment.
So argues a lawsuit, just filed in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., by attorneys with Pacific Legal Foundation. PLF is the leading legal watchdog for limited government and property rights, and one of the nation’s premier litigators for Commerce Clause limits on federal power.
“Never before has the federal government ordered citizens to buy a good or service, or be hit with a fine or other punishment,” said PLF attorney Luke Wake. “The Constitution, properly interpreted, simply doesn’t permit this kind of federal command and control of people’s lives.”
PLF attorneys represent Matt Sissel, an artist (and former Iraq War combat medic) from Iowa City, who chooses to pay for medical expenses on his own, rather than buy health insurance. He objects on financial, philosophical, and constitutional grounds to being ordered by the federal government to purchase a health care plan he does not need or want. In this suit he challenges this federally imposed financial burden.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
“... Matt Sissel, an artist (and former Iraq War combat medic) ... “
A true patriot and hero whom should be supported in any way possible. JMHO
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