Virginia has become the latest state to reject the individual insurance mandate much beloved of Washington Democrats. The interesting thing here is that Virginia’s legislature is dominated by Democrats:
Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party’s efforts in […]
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VA REJECTS INDIVIDUAL INSURANCE MANDATE
OBAMACARE GIVES IRS BROAD NEW POWERS
If you’re under the impression that Democrat health “reform” will only affect your medical care, think again. Among Obamacare’s scariest features is its dramatic expansion of IRS power:
Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats and moonshiners. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans […]
BEN NELSON: CLUELESS ON THE CONSTITUTION
It turns out that Senator Ben Nelson isn’t merely a vote-peddling roundheel. He is also profoundly ignorant about the Constitution. When asked which part of the that document authorizes the individual insurance mandate, he delivered himself of the following:
Well, you know … probably the same place that states have the authority to require, mandate if you […]
SENATE VOTE ON OCARE’S CONSTITUTIONALITY
Senator DeMint has been busy. In addition to getting his state’s AG to investigate Senator Nelson’s bribe, he has introduced a Constitutional Point of Order that will force a Senate vote on the constitutionality of the individual insurance mandate contained in the Reid version of Obamacare:
Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) and John Ensign […]
THE SLACKER MANDATE & THE CADILLAC TAX
There are so many bad provisions in the Senate’s health care ”reform” legislation that it is difficult to choose which is the worst. However, because it will raise your health insurance premiums AND your taxes, a good candidate is the slacker mandate:
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will require insurers to permit children to stay on family policies until age […]
THE ESSENCE OF DEM HEALTH “REFORM”
The following passage from National Review goes back to October 30, ancient by blogosphere standards, but it captures the essence of Obamacare far too well to pass over without comment. Writing about the House “reform” bill, the editors point out two things it has in common with all Democrat health care proposals:
Like every other Democratic bill before Congress, this ‘comprehensive reform’ has two […]
PELOSI MAKES US AN OFFER WE CAN’T REFUSE
Paul Hsieh has a good piece in the Washington Examiner discussing the mafia-like features of the recently passed House “reform” legislation:
Suppose the mafia came to your town and forced everyone to purchase all their meals at mob-approved restaurants. The mafia would also select the menu items …
Sound far-fetched? Hsieh goes on to explain that this is precisely how […]
SHOULD YOU GO TO JAIL FOR NOT BUYING INSURANCE?
Nancy Pelosi thinks so. Her recently passed health care “reform” bill contains a provision mandating jail time for people who choose not to buy insurance and also fail to pay a fine for that choice.
Today, she was asked “Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?” She cooly answered, […]
OBAMA’S FLIP FLOP ON INSURANCE MANDATES
President Oblarney’s blitz of the Sunday talk shows produced one interesting moment: his denial that a federal law requiring everyone to buy health insurance (or pay a fine) would be, in effect, a tax increase.
For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying […]
MANDATES, THE CONSTITUTION & MORE STRAW MEN
A couple of days ago I suggested that the President and his progressive supporters would be faring better in the health care reform debate if they would stop producing disingenuous answers to sincere and legitimate questions about Obamacare.
An indication of progressive intentions in this regard can be found in their responses to a Washington Post opinion piece that makes the following […]
