Posted on 03/21/2012 5:20:54 PM PDT by Libloather
Court weighs US power over states in health case
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress will help pay for your roads, but your state can't lower its drinking age below 21. There's federal money for colleges, but they can't discriminate against women in the classroom or on the athletic field.
Federal cash comes with strings. Now 26 states are telling the Supreme Court that President Barack Obama's health care law has stretched an old rule too far. The new law's requirements for expanding Medicaid amount, in their view, to coercion that violates the U.S. Constitution's division of power between the national government and the states.
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About half the states are saying: Enough is enough.
"Medicaid is no longer a partnership," said Wisconsin health secretary Dennis G. Smith, who ran the program nationwide for former President George W. Bush. "When Washington says 'You shall do this' or your entire Medicaid program is at risk ... that is flat-out coercion."
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Someone has to say it - and it ain't gonna be the exempt ones.
Court weighs US power over states in health case
Interesting title...”Court weighs United States power over states ..”
Vs. Court weighs non-voted Federal Arbeitsziehungslager over the United States and Citizens of those States.
One of the States needs to call Obama’s bluff. Just end medicaid in there state, who has the guts?
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