Arizona Moves to Oppose Obama’s Expected Health Care Mandates
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer
(CNSNews.com) – Voters in Arizona will decide next year whether residents will be subject to mandates in the pending health care reform that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promoting.
At least five other states – Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming – have considered proposals to take pre-emptive action against the pending federal mandates, but those proposals have either not made it out of committee, failed to get enough votes from one side of the legislature, or are still being crafted.
Only the Arizona Legislature introduced an initiative (HCR2014), which if passed, would amend the state constitution to codify that no resident would be required to participate in any public health care option. Arizonans will vote on the initiative in November 2010.
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Arizona Health Insurance Reform Amendment ~ 2010 (Ballotpedia)
