PrintApril 4, 2010
States Need to Protect Us from ObamaCare
If individual citizens are to survive ObamaCare with access and quality, then their state legislatures need to act. Our salvation is less likely to come from the constitutional challenges filed last week by fourteen Attorneys General than from states assuming leadership in the establishment of a parallel system of health care that excludes the federal government from participation.With the passage and signing of the massive new entitlement last week, a myriad of new regulations were imposed on the states and on individual providers. The Democrats intend to inflict these regulations using the much-abused Commerce Clause and enforce the new rules with the financial lever of federal funding of the Medicare and Medicaid programs.Thirty-two million new patients will be dumped onto the states and their local providers, professionals, and institutions. About half of these patients will have a negative impact on the budgets of each state through the cost-shared Medicaid program. All of them...(Read Full Article)
