The deeply-rooted opposition to ObamaCare has given rise to a movement to use "another tool in the Constitution to try to limit the law's reach - interstate compacts," as reported in the Washington Times. The Health Care Compact (HCC) Alliance is an effort begun late last year to establish a "compact" among a number of states "that restores authority and responsibility for health care regulation to the member states... and provides the funds to the states to fulfill that responsibility," as described on the HCC web site. The idea for a health care compact is based on Article 1, Section 10.3 of the Constitution: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress ... enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State... The HCC web site further states that there are "over 200 interstate compacts in existence, 90 of which have been approved by Congress." Recently approved compacts include an Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact and an...(Read Full Post)