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There’s a Reason It’s Called “the Lost Cause” 2

But the South shall uprise again:

Attorneys general in three states – Virginia, Florida and South Carolina – have indicated they will file legal challenges to the (health care–ed.) measure, on the grounds that it violates the Constitution by requiring individuals to purchase insurance.

Pardon me. I fear my breakfast will uprise.

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2 comments

  1. Karen

    March 22, 2010 at 1:08 pm

    I think I read somewhere that Idaho’s doing it too. Maybe Colorado, not sure.

    But…..

    If we can be forced to have auto insurance, HO insurance, commercial insurance, then why not health insurance?

    Just askin’

     
  2. Frank

    March 22, 2010 at 3:17 pm

    They are hanging their hat on auto insurance’s being a state mandate.

    Homeowners is usually mandated by the mortgage agreement, and I  bet the commercial insurance is also a state matter.

    As someone I read somewhere pointed out, your insurance company is likely incorporated in Delaware with payment and call centers are in the Carolinas or South Dakota,  and claims offices scattered about several states.  In fact, there’s a big Cigna facility (Cigna, as in “Connecticut General”) office about five miles from here.

    If that’s not interstate commerce subject to regulation under the Constitution, I don’t know what is.

    It’s rightwing hooey which seems to be based on the theory that anything that might help the less fortunate is the end of the world.