{"id":506707,"date":"2010-04-02T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011509481_attorneygeneralslawsuitaimedathealthcarebill.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:30:16","slug":"attorney-generals-lawsuit-aimed-at-health-care-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/506707","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General&#8217;s lawsuit aimed at health-care bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supreme Court should declare legislation unconstitutional<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was heartened to read that state Attorney General Rob McKenna was joining the suit to challenge the constitutionality of the recently passed health-care legislation. [\u201cState AG McKenna has authority to challenge health-care mandate,\u201d Opinion, March 27.]<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the Supreme Court will declare this legislation unconstitutional. Then based upon this precedence, the attorney general (and anyone else for that matter) will sue and get Medicare and Medicaid declared unconstitutional as well. This will get the government out of our health-care system. Everyone will then be able to buy health insurance from any private insurer they choose.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Mark Mackaman, Woodinville<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court should declare legislation unconstitutional I was heartened to read that state Attorney General Rob McKenna was joining the suit to challenge the constitutionality of the recently passed health-care legislation. [\u201cState AG McKenna has authority to challenge health-care mandate,\u201d Opinion, March 27.] Hopefully the Supreme Court will declare this legislation unconstitutional. Then based upon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506707","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\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}