just found this info
Did these legal folk not read the bill?
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Don't have a lot of time but found this on HUFFPO and thought I should post.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Wyden: Health Care Lawsuits Moot, States Can Opt Out Of Mandate
First Posted: 03-24-10 01:29 PM | Updated: 03-24-10 01:55 PM
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) has a message for all the attorneys general and Republican lawmakers who are threatening lawsuits and claiming that an individual mandate for insurance coverage is unconstitutional: You don't have to abide by it -- just set up your own plan.
The Oregon Democrat isn't inviting opponents to defy the newly-enacted health care law. Instead, he's pointing out a provision in the bill that makes moot the argument over the legality of the individual mandate.
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..."
{Emphasis mine}
Now why would thes AGs put their states in financial straits by doing this?
They must have read the bill!!!
This is a bigtime political move and it will backfire when people see this from Wyden.
I hope Rachel or Keith covers it tonight.
sorry so short but have to run....