Posted on 03/24/2010 3:16:20 PM PDT by CitizenM
RICHMOND - Governor Bob McDonnell (R) signed Virginia’s opposition to the Democratically led federal health care reform bill Wednesday afternoon.
The governor put his signature on the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act at a ceremony in Richmond. State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, State Senators Steve Martin, Fred Quayle, Jill Vogel, Delegate Bob Marshall, and Virginia Secretary of Health and Human Resources Dr. Bill Hazel all took part in the event.
“We all agree that we must expand access to quality health care and reduce costs for all Virginians. However, that should not be accomplished through an unprecedented federal mandate on individuals that we believe violates the U.S. Constitution. The Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act sets as the policy of the Commonwealth that no individual, with several specific exceptions, can be required to purchase health insurance coverage. The Act was passed with bipartisan support, in sharp contrast to the narrow straight line partisan vote that enacted the federal health care bill on Sunday night. Virginia’s Healthcare Freedom Act received the votes of leading Democratic Senators, as well as the Democratic House Minority Leader. It was an important step to sign this bipartisan legislation today,” McDonnell said in a news release.
“The states have long been leaders in identifying and implementing innovative policies to expand access to, and improve the affordability of, healthcare coverage. Virginia will continue to play that important role. We will do this through promoting incentives for the purchase of long term care and individual medical savings accounts, focusing on preventative health and combating obesity, studying our medical delivery systems with the objective of reforming them to work better for our citizens, expanding free clinics and aggressively finding new ways to reduce the cost of our Medicaid system, which has already grown 1600% in the past 25 years. There are fiscally responsible ways by which we can reform healthcare and expand quality coverage that do not involve the forcing of unfunded and unprecedented mandates onto individuals and states, and the unsustainable growing of our national debt,” the Governor added.
Cuccinelli said, “Virginians spoke loudly and clearly in rallies, in town halls, and at the ballot box about their opposition to the new federal health care law. The governor and both Democrats and Republicans in the General Assembly heard them, and as a result, the Virginia Health Care Freedom Act is being signed today.”
“Oh well..guess they’ll just have to share the spotlight with the news one state has already told them to go screw themselves.”
Pret much. MORONS.
when we passed the homosexual issue we needed so many signatures to have it on the ballot, is this the same and if so where can I sign and get others to sign it s it’ will be on the ballot?
thanks for all your hard work Bry
“and I gave a call to our AG to say thank you so much on behalf of my family”
It’s GREAT to do those kinds of calls also...thanks manc.
“Have an army of IRS agents trying to get into a 58 year old woman’s house with State Troopers on the outside? What a visual for TV that would be.”
Thanks MAO-bama! Grrrrrrr............
no problem Bruce.
I called Mica and our AG, and they assured me that this is just the start.
It’s good to give them a call as I bet they got the kooks from the left calling them and going mad.
“Perhaps Virginia could pass a state law that any and all government agents acting under the color of law within the state must obtain a Virginia Law Enforcement Permit to Possess a Firearm. Then deny it to the IRS, etc. Twenty year felony on first offense should do the trick.”
Throw those RAT IRS bastuhds in some county poke in rural VA...that’ll learn ‘em!
“2) The intense amount of legal activity will cause millions to be spent on attorneys that could have been spent actually providing healthcare.”
Guess we need to start trotting out sick people and pictures of people who died because of this.
“I think that’s EXACTLY where it’s headed: a brutal confrontation between states and the Feds. The reason? The states CANNOT AFFORD to take this bill and implement it. They simply don’t have the funds and won’t have them. It will bankrupt them and their citizens - and well they know it.”
The IDIOT federales don’t care about such niceties as balancing a budget.
I think that’s EXACTLY where it’s headed: a brutal confrontation between states and the Feds. The reason? The states CANNOT AFFORD to take this bill and implement it. They simply don’t have the funds and won’t have them. It will bankrupt them and their citizens - and well they know it. If they don’t want to be a broken, liberal cesspool mired in financial ruin, they MUST stop it any way they can! They have no choice - which is a great position for those who want this thing killed, because it means states are more likely to stand on states’ rights than fold. If they fold, they go financially insolvent. Money can be a great motivator.
“If the states are saying they won’t, makes no diff what the courts say if they are willing to stand on it.”
That’s a mighty big IF. History since the war of northern aggression hasn’t shown much of a willingness for states to stand on state-rights issues.
Beautiful!
I cannot wait to hear how the communist’s at capital hill will react.
Agreed that the federal government is running amok, but scrapping the entire system is NOT the answer - that is what the progressives want us to do. Everyday, I am thinking the answer really lies in the states and local governments. We are the United STATES after all. The federal government can only have the power we allow them to have. If the sovereign states push back on all of the usurpations of the sovereignty the federal government has taken (including the bribes - aka funding) and the People push for lower taxes that will limit the federal government’s ability to punish through taxation, we can save the Republic.
And while we are at it, we might as well abolish the Fed...
Hey, we in PA have Ed Rendell, and we’re suing. The AG (at least here) is separate from the Gov.
The leadership in MD isn’t nearly smart enough to do anything even approaching something like this-!!! And the electorate isn’t smart enough to replace them-!!
According to Bob McDonnell’s FB page, he’ll be on FOX with Greta Van Susteren around 10:30pm tonight.
Virginia...
George Washington, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson would be mighty proud of you!
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