Virginia used that because they already have a law on the books that does not allow citizens of Virginia to be mandated into buying health insurance. Today’s bill further affirmed this right and updated a few things left out in reaction to Sunday’s vote.
Florida is looking at putting this into our Constitution three ways - first, legislation has been introduced in the House that with passage would have on November’s ballot an Amendment to Florida’s Constitution protecting us from federal mandates of health care.
Secondly there are already numerous citizen petitions being passed around that would do the same.
If neither of those are able to be done by November, the House, which is under Republican control (Marco Rubio is our current State Speaker of the House and future Senator) will introduce legislation that allow by law the ability of Floridians to opt out of the Fed mandate.
Florida’s Senate has a Dem majority (slight majority) and should change after November - here as in most places Dems are not faring well after Obama and especially after this past Sunday.
Once the Senate and House are in GOP hands we’ll easily have the Amendment passed as well as the opt-out law.
Once the House and Senate are conservative in November funding can be blocked by Congress for any government healthcare. Additionally, mandatory healthcare taxes can be stopped as well. This essentially renders government healthcare meaningless since it is not funded by government or any new taxes. Congress has this power and it only takes a simple majority vote for approval.
Glad to hear Florida is standing up the Federal government. The Pennsylvania house has introduced a similar bill recently as well. I desperately hope that the States are able to stand up to this encroachment on our liberty. The upcoming Republican landslide in the midterms will certainly help slow things down, but the reality is, the Federal government will not give up power on its own - it will need to be nudged by the people and the States.
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