U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), who has earned a “Freedom Index” rating of 90 percent in the current Congress to date, has introduced a bill in the House to repeal ObamaCare. In her press release, Bachmann reminded her constituents that “the government already owns or controls about one-third of U.S. economic activity through the takeover of General Motors, the bankruptcy reorganizations of Chrysler, the partial ownership of two of the country’s largest banks in Bank of America and Citigroup, and the seizure of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well as AIG. Taken all together, [with ObamaCare] we’re looking at half of the American economy in the grip of the federal government.” Bachmann said that it “will do nothing to spur economic growth … [but] will serve only as an obstacle to actual recovery and smother the spirit of innovation and freedoms that made this country great.”
Her bill is simplicity itself:
A Bill to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Section I: Repeal of PPACA. Effective as of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, such Act is repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Act are restored or revived as if such Act had not been enacted.
The Weekly Standard’s early April issue agrees with Bachmann:
In Arizona Health Insurance Reform Amendment,
or House Concurrent Resolution 2014, will be on the
November 2, 2010 ballot
in Arizona
as a legislatively-referred
constitutional amendment. State legislators
in both the Arizona Senate and Arizona House of
Representatives voted to put the measure before the state’s
voters.
The proposed amendment to the Arizona Constitution
is sponsored by state representative Nancy
Barto.
HCR 2014 would amend the Arizona Constitution
by barring any rules or regulations that force Arizonans to participate
in a health-care system. The proposed amendment would also ensure that
individuals have the right to pay for private health insurance.
Constitutional changes
Arizona
Health Insurance Reform Amendment, constitutional text changes
If enacted by a majority of Arizona
voters, the measure would amend Article XXVII
of the Arizona Constitution
by adding a new Section 2,
the main part of which would read as follows:
Path to the ballot
The ballot
measure was referred to the November ballot by a majority
vote of the Arizona House of
Representatives and the Arizona
Senate.
Similar to 2008 measure
The proposed health insurance reform amendment is similar to a
November 2008
proposition that narrowly failed, Proposition 101.
However, the new version has some changes that take into account the
main criticism levied against the 2008 measure. The new version ensures
that patients covered under the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment
System will not be negatively impacted if the amendment passes. In
2008, AHCCCS officials argued that Proposition 101 would increase costs
by preventing the agency from requiring patients to seek services from
within its network of providers.
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