Health Care BS

It looks like Missouri’s Proposition-C, which forbids the government (state or federal) from forcing the citizens of the “Show-Me State” to buy health insurance, has passed with about 70% of the vote.

Predictably, Proposition-C’s opponents (including most of the “news” media) are putting out a lot of misinformation about the referendum. The full text is here, but the relevant passage reads as follows:

No law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system …

This is, of course, aimed at ObamaCare’s individual mandate requiring everyone to buy health insurance or face a fine. It is the provision over which the Commonwealth of Virginia and various other states have filed lawsuits.

Proposition-C is not, despite claims made by various Lefties, just a “symbolic” referendum. As Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli explains here, federal law doesn’t supersede state law if the federal statute is unconstitutional.

And Judge Henry Hudson demonstrated yesterday that the constitutionality of the mandate is open to question. In his decision to allow Virginia’s anti-ObamaCare lawsuit to go forward, he said it “raises a host of complex constitutional issues.”

So, this is shaping up to be a bad week for ObamaCare.