Missouri rejects Federal Health Insurance Mandate

Yesterday Missouri voters overwhelmingly passed Prop C, The Healthcare Freedom Act. Prop C is modeled after Virginia's Healthcare Freedom Act, which is challenging Obamacare's individual mandate in Federal Court. The first direct vote results in 71% of the public voting against Obamacare.

Missouri joins Idaho, Louisiana, Utah, and Virginia in passing legislation protecting citizens from Obamacare's unconstitutional individual mandate. This is an example of nullification, i.e. when a state declares an unconstitutional federal law void and inoperative in that state. Arizona and Oklahoma are voting on a similar ban on Federal health insurance mandates this November.

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Full text of Prop C
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Virginia Obamacare lawsuit clears 1st hurdle

U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson ruled that Virginia has standing to sue the government over Obamacare and the individual mandate. This will force the Obama administration to defend the unpopular law in the weeks before Congressional elections.

In Judge Hudson's 32 page ruling he commented "The congressional enactment under review -- the Minimum Essential Coverage Provision -- literally forges new ground and extends (the U.S. Constitution's) Commerce Clause powers beyond its current high watermark". Read the whole opinion here.

Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said "This lawsuit is not about health care, it’s about our freedom and about standing up and calling on the federal government to follow the ultimate law of the land – the Constitution. The government cannot draft an unwilling citizen into commerce just so it can regulate him under the Commerce Clause."

Administration Secretary Kathleen Sebelius downplayed the ruling as a "procedural step" and said "We remain confident that the case is solid".

A full hearing is scheduled in Richmond on October 18, two weeks before the Congressional elections on November 2.

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Judge Hudson's 32 page ruling (pdf)