From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner:
Rep. Mike Kelly said Alaska’s residents deserve “health care free choice,” and he wants to amend the state constitution to give it to them.
The Fairbanks Republican announced Tuesday that he will introduce a resolution to place an amendment before voters in the 2010 general election. It would “prohibit passage of laws that compel any person or employer to participate in a particular health care system.”
Kelly said his motivation is to avoid forced participation in a government-run health insurance system. The current draft of his resolution, which he plans to introduce when the legislative session begins in January, would also prohibit laws that penalize a person, employer or health-care provider for declining to participate in a health-care system.
Whichever State has the interest of the people and The Constitution, that is where I will move. Enough of the Feds!!!!!!!!!!
I think a lot of people will join you, Johnnie!
How do you stop the federal govt. from creating a new form of taxation that would support the remaining states that opted into the federal program ? Say, 10 states did not opt out. As their healthcare program started going bankrupt they would need to raise more money. A few years of taxing those 10 states would soon be unsustainable. I'm guessing they would "reach out" to the rest of the country for the solution. By force or coersion of course.
Important question! The reality – as long as the federal government wants to keep pushing these things down our throats – eventually, people and their states are going to have to stop funding it. I don’t believe we’re at that point yet, but it could go that direction in the future.
Every state needs to put an amendment on the ballot in 2010 that would let the people of that state decide whether or not they want to participate in a federally run health care program. Given the opportunity, I suspect the voters in most states would opt out.
Yeah, it would be a pretty hard sell for the feds if people all over the country democratically rejected their plans…