{"id":474535,"date":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/states-say-healthcare-bill-unconstitutional-sue-federal-government-41412\/"},"modified":"2010-03-26T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T14:33:11","slug":"states-say-healthcare-bill-is-unconstitutional-sue-federalgovernment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/474535","title":{"rendered":"States Say Healthcare Bill Is Unconstitutional, Sue Federal*Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.23.10 04:04 PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Justice_1961_19685333_0_0_7039109_300.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>After president Obama signed the newly passed healthcare reform bill into law, 14 states challenged the legislation by filing suit in Federal Court.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve states joined Florida&#8217;s Attorney General in the suit filed in Pensacola&#8217;s Federal Court. They are South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, Colorado and the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The commonwealth of Virginia filed suit separately.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs claim they want to protect individuals&#8217; freedom to pay their healthcare bills on their own rather than be forced by the federal government to buy insurance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a tax or a penalty on just living, and that&#8217;s unconstitutional,&#8221; McCollum said, adding that &#8220;there&#8217;s no provision in the Constitution of the United States giving Congress the power to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has said 38 states have either filed or announced their intentions to file ALEC&#8217;s Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act that would &#8220;stop ObamaCare at the state line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The act has already been passed by one legislative chamber in Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma and Tennessee, and is expected to be heard on the floor in Alabama, Kansas and Michigan.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=1961&amp;itemid=19685333\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/states-say-healthcare-bill-is-unconstitutional-will-sue-federal-government-19685333\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/news\/&#8230;ment-19685333\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.23.10 04:04 PM After president Obama signed the newly passed healthcare reform bill into law, 14 states challenged the legislation by filing suit in Federal Court. Twelve states joined Florida&#8217;s Attorney General in the suit filed in Pensacola&#8217;s Federal Court. They are South Carolina, Nebraska, Texas, Utah, Louisiana, Alabama, Michigan, Colorado and the commonwealth of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}