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Alaska Joins Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform | Radio Kenai
The Department of Laws constitutional analysis of the federal health care bill is available at the following links:
Summary: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/press/042010-ExecSummary.pdf
Opinion: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/opinions/opinions_2010/10-002_ReconciliationAct.pdf
Alaska Joins Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform
4/20/2010
Alaska is joining 20 other states in challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted federal health care reform legislation.
Governor Sean Parnell stated that the case against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is based on the extent to which the federal government can exert power over the states.
Attorney General Sullivan questions the federal governments ability to mandate that every United States citizen purchase health insurance coverage beginning in 2014. The legislation states that citizens would have to pay a tax penalty of $695 a year or 2.5 percent of their annual income, whichever is higher, as punichment for not obtaining the insurance.
Attorney General Sullivan called this portion of the law unprecedented. Sullivans says that United States citizens have never been required to buy a good or service as a condition of being a lawful citizen in the United States. the Constitution.
Governor Parnell called the decision to sue to be more about Alaskans liberty interests than about health care legislation.
The Department of Laws constitutional analysis of the federal health care bill is available at the following links:
Summary: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/press/042010-ExecSummary.pdf
Opinion: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/opinions/opinions_2010/10-002_ReconciliationAct.pdf
The Department of Laws constitutional analysis of the federal health care bill is available at the following links:
Summary: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/press/042010-ExecSummary.pdf
Opinion: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/opinions/opinions_2010/10-002_ReconciliationAct.pdf
Alaska Joins Lawsuit Against Health Care Reform
4/20/2010
Alaska is joining 20 other states in challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted federal health care reform legislation.
Governor Sean Parnell stated that the case against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is based on the extent to which the federal government can exert power over the states.
Attorney General Sullivan questions the federal governments ability to mandate that every United States citizen purchase health insurance coverage beginning in 2014. The legislation states that citizens would have to pay a tax penalty of $695 a year or 2.5 percent of their annual income, whichever is higher, as punichment for not obtaining the insurance.
Attorney General Sullivan called this portion of the law unprecedented. Sullivans says that United States citizens have never been required to buy a good or service as a condition of being a lawful citizen in the United States. the Constitution.
Governor Parnell called the decision to sue to be more about Alaskans liberty interests than about health care legislation.
The Department of Laws constitutional analysis of the federal health care bill is available at the following links:
Summary: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/press/042010-ExecSummary.pdf
Opinion: http://www.law.alaska.gov/pdf/opinions/opinions_2010/10-002_ReconciliationAct.pdf