Posted on 03/24/2011 7:58:57 AM PDT by Libloather
Washington says phase in health-care reform, or else
By William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau
March, 24 2011 7:07 AM
WASHINGTON — If Florida leaders refuse to carry out the new national health-care law, Uncle Sam is prepared to take charge on behalf of the state’s consumers.
One year after President Barack Obama signed the health-care overhaul into law, federal officials are urging Florida and other reluctant states to shape it to meet their needs and to take advantage of millions of dollars of federal planning grants. Failure to participate, officials warned this week, means a loss of state control.
Florida and other states, for example, must show by 2013 they are set up to provide a health-insurance exchange, an online service for consumers to compare coverage plans and shop for affordable rates. If states are unwilling or unprepared, the law requires U.S. officials to step in and make a federal-run exchange available for residents at the start of 2014.
But Florida Gov. Rick Scott — backed by fellow Republicans in the Legislature who strongly oppose “ObamaCare” — has refused $2 million in federal planning money and ordered state agencies not to implement the law. In addition, Florida has challenged the law in federal court, in a lawsuit filed before Scott was elected in November.
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Hang in there Scott!!
This is a Constitutional Issue.
The states are trying to get the Federal Courts to resolve it.
The bastard is trying to block them.
This isn’t the kind of banana republic the bastard grew up in.
The states should hang tight and refuse to kunckle under until the Courts have their say and the GOP should find their testacles and introduce articles of impeachment against the bastard.
Sounds like we have a real potential for a Constitutional crisis, and that the electorate will soon become familiar with the 10th Amendment.
I certainly hope those articles would include not only the contempt of court charges from the gulf oil moratorium and the obamacare injunction but the 16 Social Security numbers he has used and the vote fraud during his time at ACORN.
I just hope that somewhere there is an FBI agent that has been off the books beavering away for years on this.
But Obama/Rats said it wasn’t a TAKEOVER!
Btw, under what part of the Constitution does the federal Gov’t have the authority to make any state implement Obamacare? The Constitution is the supreme law of land.
I will paraphrase from one of Churchill’s speeches (the guy whose statue the (.)bama had shipped back to England:
“we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our STATE’s rights, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this STATE or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the FREE REPUBLIC with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and SHIPS HIS ASS BACK TO KENYA.
It would help if the Federal judge who found Obamacare to be unconstitutional would issue an injunction on implementation pending a definitive ruling. Once the infrastructure starts going into place constitutionality will rapidly become a moot point. How come the states aren’t insisting an unequivocal stay on this?
The Constitution doesn’t grant the feds that authority, but technically, they aren’t exercising such authority under PPACA. They’re just saying to states “if you don’t set up exchanges by X date, we will.” So states are “voluntarily” complying by virtue of being put between a rock and a hard place. Ugly politics, but not unconstitutional (unfortunately).
The Impostor-in-chief isn't the only one that should feel repercussions from this unconstitutional disaster, he didn't act alone.
Perhaps we need new Committees of Correspondence to deal with this regime.
If the SCOTUS ever grows tired of aiding and abeting treason, gets off their arse an acts, all of 0’bs wet dreams will have been for nothing.
Obama shipped a statue of Churchill BACK to England?
He probably should have have shipped back any copies of Magna Carta too, since ot appears he has little use of either.
He’s an evil bastard.
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