what do they do, keep their state income tax refund? or put them in jail if they refuse to pay???
Posted on 10/22/2011 9:03:08 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
State officials refused to say yesterday how many families they’ve fined this year for buying too little health insurance under former Gov. Mitt Romney’s controversial health-care reform after blistering criticism from GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich thrust the issue into the national spotlight.
“We are releasing the 2009 report at the end of the year,” Health Insurance Connector Authority spokesman Richard Powers said. He said officials haven’t sorted the data to identify why the 2010 and 2011 fines were handed out but said between 46,000 to 49,000 people were fined in 2009 for having no insurance or having less insurance than the state demands.
The divisive plan took center stage Tuesday night when former U.S. House Speaker Gingrich used a Herald column to blast Romney’s signature health-care law — dubbed “Romneycare” — during a national debate.
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‘splain that Romney....
WOO WOO, can’t wait until the next debate. Chip, Chip, Chip, T I M B E Rrrrrrr.
what do they do, keep their state income tax refund? or put them in jail if they refuse to pay???
This is just a way for the State to get more money to fund a failing Romneycare. The State can determine that you did not purchase the amount of insurance that they determine you can afford so they fine you and force you to pay more for a insurance plan you don’t need.
bttt
The best that can be said for Romneycare is that, unlike Obamacare, it is not prima facia unconstitutional. It’s contrary to liberty, bad policy on fiscal grounds alone, and doesn’t perform as advertised, just like Obamacare. However, it is within the powers reserved to the several states to exercise general police powers in the way both programs require to be even minimally functional toward their purported aims, which is not the case with the Federal government (or at least is not the case with the Federal government until Justice Kennedy decides it is).
Will ANY of the GOP candidates have enough COMMON SENSE to raise this in the next debate?
Doubtful. And, if they do, Romney will ignore it and babble on about how he’ll kill Obamacare. AND, the moderator will let him get away with it.
After all, we can’t have facts and details that harm the chosen Establishment Candidate to be given airtime in front of the voters!!!!
There is nothing in the Constitution about granting “police powers” to the several states. Don’t forget any unenumerated powers are assigned to the states and to the people. To the people.
It is unconstitutional because it violates the anti slavery amendment. It makes people slaves of the insurance companies and the government.
To the states and the people, which means the question rests on how the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts apportions the unenumerated rights, so as regards the U.S. Constitution, there is nothing prima facia unconstitutional about Romneycare, unlike Obamacare, which, as the rest of my post pointed out, is the sole way in which it is less odious.
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