States seeking to ban mandatory health insurance

Despite federal stalemate, state lawmakers pursuing measures banning health insurance mandates

Lawmakers in 34 states have filed or proposed amendments to their state constitutions or statutes rejecting health insurance mandates, according to the American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit group that promotes limited government that is helping coordinate the efforts. Many of those proposals are targeted for the November ballot, assuring that health care remains a hot topic as hundreds of federal and state lawmakers face re-election. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 1, 2010 - 9:24 AM PST
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by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 1, 2010

Lieb gives the surface politics of the movement. He fails to dig for the sources of the money behind the American Legislative Exchange Council. The irony of the party fullly for big corporate power is parading as the defender of the people is the heart of the movement, but is a missing ingredient in the coverage here.

Corporatist democrats selling out to insurance company interests have made a mess of what should have been a no-brainer positive issue for them. Our system is broken through dependence on corporate money.

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