Posted on 12/27/2013 5:26:35 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Next month, the Missouri Senate will consider a bill which would effectively cripple the implementation of the Affordable Care Act within the state.
Following the lead of South Carolina, where lawmakers are fast-tracking House Bill 3101 in 2014, and Georgia, where HB707 was recently introduced by Rep. Jason Spencer, Missouri State Senator John T. Lamping (R-24) pre-filed Senate Bill 546 (SB546) to update the Health Care Freedom Act passed by Missouri voters in 2010. It passed that year with more than 70% support.
SB546 would ban Missouri from taking any action that would “compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system.” That means the state would be banned by law from operating a health care exchange for the federal government.
The bill also proposes suspending the licenses of insurers who accept federal subsidies which result in the “imposition of penalties contrary to the public policy” set forth in the legislation. Since it is unlikely that any insurer would then accept a subsidy, not a single employer in the state could be hit with the employer-mandate penalties those subsidies trigger.
In a press release, Lamping said his goal was make health care better for the people of his state. “These ideas are aimed at improving … health care decisions for Missourians.”
Following significant portions of the Tenth Amendment Center’s four-step plan to nullify Obamacare on a state-level, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano noted that such actions were not just legal, but effective.
“If enough states do this, it will gut Obamacare because the federal government doesn’t have the resources … to go into each of the states if they start refusing,” he said.
Based on the long-standing principle known as the anti-commandeering doctrine...
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Whoo-hoo!
BTT. This thing has to be stopped.
Good for you, Missouri, for dealing with this.... IntolerableActCare abomination.
Unfortunately unlike South Carolina we have a Democrat governor who will veto it on arrival.
wouldn’t %70 be a veto proof majority?
So will state law will trump federal law?
Hmmmmm?
No - it just means the states will not enforce Federal law, making the Feds enforce it themselves. Remember how they played games with immigration law, saying the states couldn’t enforce it, only the Feds could?
Or some liberal federal judge will rule against it.
Yep, a dead end 2nd termer. Nothing to lose by vetoing it.
I’ll have lots of choices where I want to move to. This is the way to do it.
OK Texas, are we going to be out-done by Missouri?
Well, rawhide, apart from legislation in support of, and as extensions of, the enumerated powers set in the Constitution, State Law should always trump FedGov.
Unfortunately, over 200 years of tweaking, fiddling, and incrementally dismantling the US Constitution has gotten us to this point; with little hope of peacefully returning to our political and societal roots.
Way to go Missouri!
Missouri is the state right next door to me ... and ... we just had some Missouri people become next-door neighbors to us!
You might also check out Silver Dollar City and Branson, the next time you’re over that way in Missouri.
Silver Dollar City
http://www.silverdollarcity.com
Branson
http://www.branson.com
many other these judges belong in jail..
I was all excited to go to Branson. Wasn’t what I expected and didn’t really care for it. Silver Dollar City either. Sorry.
Correct. Missouri has a veto proof Republican majority in both houses. NIxon will veto, but hopefully the legislature has the stones to shut him down.
I’m in Tulsa now, but while I was in Oregon, I even heard people there talking about Branson and Silver Dollar City. I had no idea what they were talking about, while back in Oregon. But since being here, my relatives have taken me over there a number of times. And a lot of people around here go back again and again.
There are a lot of wholesome family things going on there - conferences, church groups, singers and other performers - and also, there are Christian conferences that different groups plan on doing, from all over the country.
I guess you have to be into the “whole thing” and not merely a visit for entertainment and sights.
I cannot believe the insurers bought into Obamacare in the first place.
On second thought, if they unite Obamacare is dead in its tracks.
“OK Texas, are we going to be out-done by Missouri?:
Our legislature is not in session. They meet every other year.
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