Greg Abbott Explains Plan for Health Care Lawsuit
As soon as Barack Obama signs the just-passed health care reform bill into law on Tuesday, a coalition of states will file a lawsuit challenging its constitutionality. Texas will be among them.
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott spent the weekend weighing the options of how — it wasn't a question of "if" — Texas would challenge the health care reform bill in court. On Saturday, he posted on his Facebook page, “It's just a question of whether to file our own lawsuit or join a multistate effort.”
On a Sunday evening conference call, attorneys general from around the country opted ...
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defuera
One doesn't have to look far to see the emptiness of this "individual mandate" threat. Weak, weak, weak. And no, you can' make the argument (credibly) that you don't HAVE to have auto insurance. I have always said that the auto insurance mandate -which Abbott supports rabidly-- denied many poor people the chance to be law abiding. No, it isn't so easy as to say "pay or don't drive." Maybe for the stinking rich and privileged like Abbot, but many of us see it as "pay insurance or eat this week." To force people to pay auto insurance and then say they can't be mandate to buy health insurance is just hypocrisy at its worst. At least the federal government is offering supplemental support to poor people. Has Texas ever entertained such a thing for poor drivers? No. What you have done is make tow truck company owners rich and poor people poorer. And you know it. Abbott's lame.
defuera
One doesn't have to look far to see the emptiness of this "individual mandate" threat. Weak, weak, weak. And no, you can' make the argument (credibly) that you don't HAVE to have auto insurance. I have always said that the auto insurance mandate -which Abbott supports rabidly-- denied many poor people the chance to be law abiding. No, it isn't so easy as to say "pay or don't drive." Maybe for the stinking rich and privileged like Abbot, but many of us see it as "pay insurance or eat this week." To force people to pay auto insurance and then say they can't be mandate to buy health insurance is just hypocrisy at its worst. At least the federal government is offering supplemental support to poor people. Has Texas ever entertained such a thing for poor drivers? No. What you have done is make tow truck company owners rich and poor people poorer. And you know it. Disgusting hypocrisy.