Breitbart TV had this report on Mars, makers of candy bars such as 3 Musketeers and M&M’s. Their changing of candy bar sizes to not sell single package candy bars with more than 250 calories is a result of their agreement with Michelle Obama’s partnership for a Healthier America.
One post from the Breitbart TV website DarthShatner summed it up when he said “Whats to stop someone from eating as many chocolate bars as they want. calories per package is irrelevent when it comes to consumption. The stupidity from the white house continues.”
Amicus Brief highlights Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment as evidence of mandate’s unconstitutionality
Columbus, OH – The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law today submitted to the United States Supreme Court a “friend of the court” brief asserting that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional. The brief highlights for the High Court Ohioans’ placement of the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment (“Issue 3″) in Ohio’s Bill of Rights, and its role in the Court’s analysis of whether the mandate withstands constitutional scrutiny.
The individual health insurance mandate, described as a “minimum essential coverage requirement” in the PPACA, attempts to require each citizen of the United States to purchase a qualifying heath insurance policy that, thus far, must cover items ranging from substance abuse and mental health coverage to maternity care. Through requiring these coverages and others, the mandate is expected to drive up costs of health insurance premiums nationwide.
Robert and Patricia Haynes take care of their two children, who at the ages of 30 and 34 are more like children in adult bodies. That’s because they both have cerebral palsy, and rely on their parents to feed and change them — and likely will for the rest of their lives.
The Haynes family receives monthly checks from the state of Michigan through Medicaid, allowing the parents to care for their son and daughter themselves instead of institutionalizing them. But because a Michigan law classifies Robert and Patricia as “home health care workers,” they are considered public workers and therefore automatic union members —
Tuesday the voters of Ohio resoundingly sent a message to Washington: “We don’t want your government healthcare!”
In a almost 66% to 34% vote Ohioans voted to enact the Proposed Constitutional Amendment to preserve the freedom of Ohioans to choose their health care and health care coverage, otherwise known nationally as Issue 3.
The passage of Issue 3 protects Ohioans from the federal government to force them to purchase any type or product or service, specifically aimed at Obama’s centerpiece legislation of national health care, otherwise known as Obamacare.
Issue 3 read:
The proposed amendment would provide that:
In Ohio, no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system.
In Ohio, no law or rule shall prohibit the purchase or sale of health care or health insurance.
I have heard over the past several weeks many things against Issue 3, Ohio’s Health Care Amendment. They say that it will “have dramatic consequences” for child support enforcement, our ability to license doctors and nurses, for school immunization programs, and workers compensation. All of these are lies. Below is the actual wording for the Issue 3 that will appear on your ballots. Continue reading Ohio’s Issue 3 Health Care Amendment and what is really in it?
The Ohioans for Health Care Freedom Amendment released their first video to help promote the passage of Issue 3 this fall.
Issue 3 gives Ohioans the right to choose whether or not they will be forced by the Federal government to purchase any health care product. The following is the actual text for Issue 3.
Issue 3
Proposed Constitutional Amendment
Proposed by Initiative Petition
To adopt Section 21 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of Ohio
A majority yes vote is necessary for the amendment to pass.
The proposed amendment would provide that:
In Ohio, no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in a health care system.
In Ohio, no law or rule shall prohibit the purchase or sale of health care or health insurance.
In Ohio, no law or rule shall impose a penalty or fine for the sale or purchase of health care or health insurance.
The proposed amendment would not:
Affect laws or rules in effect as of March 19, 2010.
Affect which services a health care provider or hospital is required to perform or provide.
Affect terms and conditions of government employment.
Affect any laws calculated to deter fraud or punish wrongdoing in the health care industry.
If approved, the amendment will be effective thirty days after the election.
The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a lawsuit seeking to bar Ohioans this November from voting on The Healthcare Freedom Amendment constitutional initiative. That initiative will allow voters to add to the Bill of Rights and, protected in Ohio’s Constitution, an individual right to freedom from government mandated health care decisions. The Court ruled that the move by ProgressOhio to throw out the signatures of more than 60,000 voters previously validated by county boards of elections across Ohio was without legal merit or factual support.
“We are gratified that this decision vindicates the commitment of our volunteer circulators and the decisions of hundreds of thousands of Ohio citizens who signed this petition to entrust personal health care choices to the votes of the affected individuals and families in Ohio rather than the arbitrary dictates of distant politicians and bureaucracies” said Alan Witten, treasurer for The Ohio Project committee representing more than 4000 volunteers who gathered more than 440,000 of the petition signatures that were submitted to the Secretary of State in early July.
Jason Mihalick, also a committee member, added, “We, the volunteers that worked tirelessly during the days, nights, and weekends for the last sixteen months to bring this issue to the ballot, will now turn our complete focus onto the campaign efforts to ensure the passage of this amendment in November. Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom, the campaign arm of this effort, will have the full support and might of thousands of volunteers that have resolved to see this project through to successful completion. We will work to rally voters to the polls in November to vote YES on Issue 3 and thereby send a clear message that no bureaucrat at the state or federal level will tell us what insurance to buy, when or if to buy it, or will limit our freedom to choose healthcare any more than what they already have.”
The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.
“The ACA [Affordable Care Act] will require additional resources to build new IT systems; modify existing tax processing systems; provide taxpayer outreach and assistance services; make enhancements to notices, collections, and case management systems to address and resolve taxpayer issues timely and accurately; and conduct focused examinations to encourage compliance,” said the newly released IRS budget.
In its request, the IRS explained that the tax changes associated with health reform are huge. “Implementation of the Affordable Care Act of 2010 presents a major challenge to theIRS. ACA represents the largest set of tax law changes in more than 20 years, with more than 40 provisions that amend the tax laws.”
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 3, 2011; 6:07 PM
Cuccinelli (R) said that conflicting court decisions about the law’s constitutionality have created sufficient uncertainty about implementation of the sweeping law to justify speeding Supreme Court review.
The Justice Department will oppose the motion, saying that the case should be fully heard by lower courts before the Supreme Court takes action.
The high court has granted such requests infrequently, and many experts said they think Cuccinelli’s filing is a longshot. Supporters of the law said that the provision at the heart of the legal dispute – a requirement that individuals buy health insurance – will not go into effect until 2014.
In a stunning blow today Judge Roger Vinson cited the founding Fathers and struck down Obama’s health care law as being unconstitutional. You can read the entire text of Judge Vinson’s ruling here at the Ohio Free Press.
Early in his ruling he quoted the 10th amendment citing “The Framers believed that limiting federal power, and allowing the “residual” power to remain in the hands of the states (and of the people), would help “ensure protection of our fundamental liberties” and “reduce the risk of tyranny and abuse.”
In Judge Vinson’s remarks he said:
“In closing, I will simply observe, once again, that my conclusion in this case
is based on an application of the Commerce Clause law as it exists pursuant to the
Supreme Court’s current interpretation and definition. Only the Supreme Court (or a
Constitutional amendment) can expand that.
“In closing, I will simply observe, once again, that my conclusion in this caseis based on an application of the Commerce Clause law as it exists pursuant to theSupreme Court’s current interpretation and definition. Only the Supreme Court (or a Constitutional amendment) can expand that.”
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Ohio’s Issue 3 Health Care Amendment and what is really in it?
I have heard over the past several weeks many things against Issue 3, Ohio’s Health Care Amendment. They say that it will “have dramatic consequences” for child support enforcement, our ability to license doctors and nurses, for school immunization programs, and workers compensation. All of these are lies. Below is the actual wording for the Issue 3 that will appear on your ballots. Continue reading Ohio’s Issue 3 Health Care Amendment and what is really in it?