Posted on 10/18/2010 3:14:34 PM PDT by Libloather
Health care reform goes before federal judge in Richmond
Updated: Oct 18, 2010 5:35 PM EDT
By Andy Jenks
Posted by Terry Alexander
RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - America's health care overhaul is under a judge's microscope right here in Richmond. At issue: Whether the government can require you to buy health insurance.
For two and a half hours, attorneys squared-off on the constitutionality of national health care reform, the latest step in a legal battle that's expected to go all the way to the top.
When President Barack Obama put health care reform into law this year, it was written so uninsured Americans wouldn't have to buy their own coverage until 2014. Four years, for the legal system to sort it out, beginning with Virginia's attorney general.
"Virginia is attempting to put the federal government back inside the constitutional fence," said Ken Cuccinelli, following the morning hearing at the U.S. Courthouse downtown.
Each side spoke with surgical precision. Arguing for the commonwealth, solicitor general E. Duncan Getchell said that the government can't make you buy anything, adding it's "...the one thing they [the government] weren't allowed to choose" in putting healthcare reform together.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbc12.com ...
Next we will be forced to buy a GM.
Bad reporting! It wasn't made mandatory that individuals buy this sh*t until 2014 so the gov't could collect the taxes for four years in advance making the total ten year "cost" less than 1 trillion bucks! It was an accounting gimmick by the dems!
Cuccinelli is awesome. He will not stop until he wins.
That should be funny and not prophesy
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