Illinois Legislator's HB 6842 Would Allow Opting Out of Obamacare

March 26, 2010 - In spite of its reluctant Attorney General, the State of Illinois just might resist ObamaCare after all. On Thursday night, March 25, Illinois became the 40th state to introduce legislation to allow its residents to “opt-out” of the Democrats’ job-killing government takeover of health care. The bill, HB 6842, “[p]rovides that no resident of the State…shall be required to obtain or maintain a policy of individual insurance” and “[p]rovides that no provision of the Act shall render a resident of this State liable for any penalty, assessment, fee, or fine as a result of his failure to procure or obtain health insurance coverage.” Source The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) noted in a press release that "Illinois became the 40th state where legislators have introduced, or will introduce, legislation modeled after the American Legislative Exchange Council’s (ALEC) Freedom of Choice in Health Care Act. Illinois House Bill 6842 prohibits a requirement to purchase health insurance and would provide the state with protection in a constitutional challenge of the federal health reform bill." It should come as no surprise to anyone that the driving force behind HB 6842 is - surprise! - a Republican. Even as Illinois' Attorney General Lisa Madigan (a Democrat) was saying that she would not join 13 other states' AGs in challenging "ObamaCare," State Rep Bill Mitchell (R-Decatur) introduced HB 6842 to essentially accomplish some of the same goals. Mitchell's HB 6842 is, as reported by Illinois Review, "patterned after Virginia's law undermining the federal mandate requiring individuals to buy health insurance. HB 6842 removes the requirement in Illinois, and cancels any penalties associated with the federal mandate for health insurance." Illinois is in serious financial meltdown. Governor Quinn has been weak and indecisive about how to deal with the mess. The federally mandated, nationalized healthcare that was voted on earlier this week will certainly affect every states' budgets, and profoundly, but it is too early to know just how. Illinois Democrats who have not spoken out in favor of challenging ObamaCare seem happy to play a kind of Russian roulette with the state's already-injured economy. Keep your fingers crossed that the Republicans in Springfield can guide HB 6842 through to passage. Get ready for more headlines like this one, from the Los Angeles Times: "States fighting healthcare law don't have precedent on their side‎." It's meant to discourage the challengers of ObamaCare, but fails to take into account a simple fact: A precedent is set when something happens for the first time. There is, as the saying goes, a first time for everything. After all, where was the precedent for a Marxist-Leninist takeover of one sixth of the U.S. economy? RELATED: Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of HB6842 Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB6842 It’s official: Louisiana signs on with Florida in legal challenge to HCR Leave a Comment * Conservative T-Shirts * Follow CNB on Twitter * RSS Feed

The Coming US Health Care Nightmare

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and millions of other idiots are salivating at the prospect of "free health care" under the next Democrat Administration. Whether or not that administration will come to power in 2009 under Obama or a future contender, one thing is certain: The same type of geniuses of inefficiency that currently run the US Post Office, the Cook County health care system, and hundreds of other monstrously inept government bureaucracies will screw up health care as badly as they have screwed up so much else that they've gotten their grubby mits on. Meanwhile, if somebody walks into the emergency room of a U.S. hospital with a life-threatening condition they will be treated immediately. To with, a good post from Van Helsing at MoonBattery: In the socialist dystopia once known as Great Britain, the ironically named NICE (National Institute for Health and Clinical Guidelines) has ruled that patients' lives should not be saved if it would cost too much. The "rule of rescue," based on the fundamental human instinct to come to the aid of people whose lives are endangered, has been officially rejected. FULL POST... RELATED: Fagus, Master of the Black Hole Patients 'should not expect NHS to save their life if it costs too much How Stroger Hospital pinches pennies on health care Nice should be abolished, expert claims NHS is failing the over-50s, claims university study Brits suffering under system Families slam decision to deny patients cancer drug Reality Check: British Government Does Cost-Benefit Analysis No antibiotics for cough, colds and ear infections Was Sheriff Tom Dart wrong and playing politics? - 10 Apr 2007 - Cook County Health care system has a backlog of at least 9000 waiting for breast cancer screening...

The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

Apparently, Rogers Park Bench was not alone when we compared Hillary Clinton to Hugo Chavez, virtual dictator of Venezuela. Blogger BoRev.net linked to me and wrote: "The right-wing blogosphere immediately, inexplicably, and no doubt organically all made the exact same comparison: that she was announcing her engagement to Hugo Chavez or something. Apparently in their circles this is meant to be a slur." Let me ask you, BoRev: When the folks in your "circles" compare George Bush to Adolf Hitler, is that intended as a slur, or as an accurate comparison of political policies? When such a comparison is made, is it part of a Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy? BoRev, my comparison of Hillary to Hugo was indeed "organic." Is it beyond your belief that more than one person would make such an obvious comparison? Do you really think I get email from Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh directing me as to what I should write, as to which catch phrases I should use? Are you that paranoid about a so-called Right-Wing Conspiracy? As for the comparison of Hillary to Chavez, it was not meant as a slur. Yes, it's an unfavorable comparison, but it was made as an accurate one. Chavez wants to nationalize things. Hillary wants to nationalize things. Slur? No, an accurate comparison.