Senator Jane Cunningham, R-Chesterfield, is announcing that she will introduce legislation during the 2010 session of the General Assembly designed to protect health care freedom of choice for Missourians.
Senator Cunningham and Representative Tim Jones, R-Eureka, plan to introduce legislation accompanied with a proposed state constitutional amendment that could protect Missourians from federal health care mandates and guarantee they can choose their own health care and insurance options. The proposed legislation would also protect small business owners from fines for declining to participate in government health care mandates.
Senator Cunningham’s proposals would add Missouri to a list of dozens of states calling for legislation or state constitutional amendments to guard citizens against attempts to socialize health care through the “public option” health care mandate currently under consideration by Congress. Arizona already has such a measure on its 2010 ballot.
“If this measure is passed by the Legislature, Missouri voters would have an opportunity to decide if they want to send a message to Washington that participation in an insurance plan is a personal decision and a right which should not be infringed upon,” Sen. Cunningham said.
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Sunday, September 27, 2009
Cunningham, Jones seek to keep Missouri away from federal healthcare mandates
Sen. Jane Cunningham, R-St. Louis, and Rep. Tim Jones, R-Eureka, will introduce legislation in their respective chambers next year to keep federal healthcare mandates out of Missouri. The following news release was issued:
Is this another one of the feel good legislation things that the Neo-Cons do on a consistent basis. What are they even talking about. Why don't they work on some things that will make the people of Missouri's lives better. The Rethuglicans never cease to amaze me that they think they can fool all of the people all of the time. How do they keep getting elected.
ReplyDeleteWhat a worthless waste of these guys' paychecks. To think they can do an "end-run" around federal legislation is the heighth of conservative arrogance! Evidently these dopes don't care that the U.S. govt. pays 2-3 times as much as European nations per capita for healthcare. Evidently they're FOR a bloated budget deficit.
ReplyDeleteSome of us realize a problem exists for individual Americans and America as a nation. Others, like these clowns, simply don't care.
Evidently, they have no shame.
Anyone ever read the 10th Amendment to the US Constitution? It is this:
ReplyDelete" The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
I don't see anything about healthcare nor do I see a probibition to doing an "end-run"
on any federal legislation.
Good for Cunningham and Jones.
I've always thought of the Missouri General Assembly as a place where bad ideas go to thrive. As bad as this latest abomination seems, I wouldn't be the least be surprised to see it enacted almost immediately when the next session begins. I think, I hope, Governor Nixon would veto it. There's probably not enough support for this idiocy to override a veto.
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