Will Georgia Nullify National Health Care?

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georgia-flagGeorgia State Representative Calvin Hill has introduced House Resolution 1086 (HR1086), which proposes a Georgia State Constitutional Amendment “so as to provide that no law or rule or regulation shall compel any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in any health care system and to authorize persons and employers to pay directly for lawful health care services without penalties or fines; to provide for the submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes.”

If approved by both houses of the Georgia legislature, it will go to a ballot vote for final approval by the citizens of the state.

Georgia joins Ohio, Florida and a number of other states considering similar state Constitutional Amendments to effectively nullify, or resist any future national health care plan.

New Hampshire recently introduced a bill to make law that not only makes federal restrictions of health care choices illegal in the state, but also expressly prohibits interference in these choices by federal agents and requires state agencies to interpose as a protection.
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6 comments
Carl Swensson
Carl Swensson

Two ways to nullify...
Remove the USURPER in the White House and that will render all he's signed null and void.
Do it at the State level
Get with your County GOP leaders and ask that nullification of the Health bill be put on the ballot.

guest
guest

I think that you a re missing the point. US citizens already have a government-run, national healthcare program; it is called Medicare. It provides healthcare coverage to those that cannot afford high priced personal plans; it does not force anyone to drop their own coverage; and it is subsidized by every worker in America. What would be so bad about widening the coverage of that plan to include, say, another 100 million people, with ,say, another 31 million new payers(people not already paying into the system) paying for it?

Patriot
Patriot

BECAUSE MEDICARE IS BANKRUPT, FILLED WITH CORRUPTION, and extending that to everyone will not only bankrupt the MEDICARE system, it will bankrupt the nation. There is NOTHING good about Medicare. Doctors are running from it daily!

John the Revelator
John the Revelator

The health care bill is unconstitutional. Congress does not have the legal authority to make it mandatory for anyone to buy or have insurance.

snopercod
snopercod

Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi is way ahead of us. She put language in the House Bill so that if a state chooses to ‘opt out’, they lose ALL federal funding in the medical area and more. The Pelosicare bill reads:

Subtitle E—Miscellaneous

SEC. 2585. STATES FAILING TO ADHERE TO CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT OBLIGATIONS.

A State is eligible for Federal funds under the provisions of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) only if the State—

(1) agrees to be subject in its capacity as an employer to each obligation under Division A [The meat of the Bill] of this Act and the amendments made by such division applicable to persons in their capacity as an employer; and

(2) assures that all political subdivisions in the State will do the same.

I went to Title 42 of the U.S. Codes starting with Section 201 (definitions), and eventually came to Chapter 7 – Social Security. In that section, the following grants are included:
GRANTS TO STATES FOR OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE
FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS, AND DISABILITY INSURANCE BENEFITS
GRANTS TO STATES FOR UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ADMINISTRATION
GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID AND SERVICES TO NEEDY FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN AND FOR CHILD-WELFARE SERVICES
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT
TEMPORARY STATE FISCAL RELIEF
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS
EMPLOYMENT SECURITY ADMINISTRATIVE FINANCING
GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO BLIND
GENERAL PROVISIONS, PEER REVIEW, AND ADMINISTRATIVE SIMPLIFICATION
ADVANCES TO STATE UNEMPLOYMENT FUNDS
RECONVERSION UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR SEAMEN
GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO PERMANENTLY AND TOTALLY DISABLED
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED
GRANTS FOR PLANNING COMPREHENSIVE ACTION TO COMBAT MENTAL RETARDATION
HEALTH INSURANCE FOR AGED AND DISABLED
GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
BLOCK GRANTS TO STATES FOR SOCIAL SERVICES
STATE CHILDRENS HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM
Since the wording of the Pelosicare Bill says “Et seq.” (An abbreviation of the Latin phrase et sequens… used to identify the sections or subsections that follow it.) I assume that the feds will cut off all that money to any state which doesn’t comply with “Division A”, which is the meat of the bill.

Cre8ivE
Cre8ivE

Very true - and not surprising, as that has been how they teased away our rights little by little up to this point. The interesting tack will be when the States, exercising their nullification powers - finally realize that they should also pass similar legislation such that their citizenry need not pay those Federal taxes on such unequally apportioned social programs for which the Federal government has no Constitutional Authority.
THEN we'll be right back at one of the big reasons we fought the war for independence in the first place... taxation.

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