{"id":701608,"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.com\/index\/701608","title":{"rendered":"States Say Healthcare Bill Is Unconstitutional, Sue Federal*Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.23.10 04:04 PM<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pictures.directnews.co.uk\/liveimages\/Justice_1961_19685333_0_0_7039109_300.jpg?w=780\" 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 data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?w=780\" 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":2893,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Wwg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}