Healthcare bill lets states opt out of mandate

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Speaking to the Huffington Post on Tuesday, Wyden discussed -- for one of the first times in public -- legislative language he authored which "allows a state to go out and do its own bill, including having no individual mandate."

It's called the "Empowering States to be Innovative" amendment. And it would, quite literally, give states the right to set up their own health care system -- with or without an individual mandate or, for that matter, with or without a public option -- provided that, as Wyden puts it, "they can meet the coverage requirements of the bill."

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States that [find] the mandate objectionable could simply create and insert a new system in its place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/wyden-health-care-lawsuit_n_511748.html

[Obama 2012 1,714]

They see the anger and they see the possible SCOTUS reversal of that then.

If the SCOTUS were to nix that part, the whole bill goes and they sure as hell don't want that to happen.

[mawilson 2,133]

That's good news.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

So does this mean everyone can calm down?

[mawilson 2,133]

So does this mean everyone can calm down?

Are they going to fire 16,500 IRS agents? Not really.... the government is still getting bigger and that's the problem.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Are they going to fire 16,500 IRS agents? Not really.... the government is still getting bigger and that's the problem.

But the IRS are cute and furry.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Are they going to fire 16,500 IRS agents? Not really.... the government is still getting bigger and that's the problem.

Yep.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Speaking to the Huffington Post on Tuesday, Wyden discussed -- for one of the first times in public -- legislative language he authored which "allows a state to go out and do its own bill, including having no individual mandate."

It's called the "Empowering States to be Innovative" amendment. And it would, quite literally, give states the right to set up their own health care system -- with or without an individual mandate or, for that matter, with or without a public option -- provided that, as Wyden puts it, "they can meet the coverage requirements of the bill."

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States that [find] the mandate objectionable could simply create and insert a new system in its place.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/24/wyden-health-care-lawsuit_n_511748.html

This must be a surprise to the states that filed to declare the law unconstitutional.

I want a law that exempts me from the forcing and penalities, like it exempts Wyden.

The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Sofiyya

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

But the IRS are cute and furry.

Great cartoon. The IRS are my favorite people in the whole world, I am SO happy there will be more of them.

[Ban Hammer 12,842]

But the IRS are cute and furry.

ewok is the irs?

Edited March 24, 2010 by charles!

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They see the anger and they see the possible SCOTUS reversal of that then.

No, Paul. The provision is the law of the land today. It was signed by the President on Tuesday. The provision which Wyden discusses is part of the very bill the states are looking to sue over. Which shows that rather than studying the content of the law, they took their cues from Hoax News and went on suing. It's like suing the builder of your home for depriving you of the liberty to leave your house while, really, you just refuse to use the fcuking door the builder put in there for to leave at your own convenience. If that ain't an embarrassment and a testimony of incompetence on part of the attorneys general, then I don't know what is. Frenzied idiots.

Edited March 24, 2010 by Mr. Big Dog

[Obama 2012 1,714]

No, Paul. The provision is the law of the land today. It was signed by the President on Tuesday. The provision which Wyden discusses is part of the very bill the states are looking to sue over. Which shows that rather than studying the content of the law, they took their cues from Hoax News and went on suing. It's like suing the builder of your home for depriving you of the liberty to leave your house while, really, you just refuse to use the fcuking door the builder put in there for to leave at your own convenience. If that ain't an embarrassment and a testimony of incompetence on part of the attorneys general, then I don't know what is. Frenzied idiots.

If it is part of the law now, then the idiots and ###### bastards are Pelosi and her minions for not pointing this out to begin with/allowing the full legislation to be read beforehand.....

2700 pages of bullshit, who has time to sort it all out?

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Law students all over the country are laughing it up at all this hysteria over "2700 pages".

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Law students all over the country are laughing it up at all this hysteria over "2700 pages".

and those law students are ###### idiots.

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and those law students are ###### idiots.

They can, and routinely do, complete assignments requiring the reading of thousands of pages. Who's the idiot, those who can or those who can't?