Bill McCollum Confident Suit Against Obamacare Won't Be Dismissed
With oral arguments concluded in Pensacola, where a federal judge weighs whether to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Attorney General Bill McCollum against new federal health-care laws backed by President Barack Obama, McCollum feels good that his case -- which is being backed by 19 other states and the National Federation of Independent Businesses -- will be heard.
“The federal health-care act exceeds the powers granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution and tramples on our Founding Fathers’ notion of federalism,” said McCollum after the arguments were heard. “It is an egregious violation of individual liberty and limited government.
“If the federal government is allowed to implement the individual mandate citizens have health insurance or pay a penalty, there is essentially no limit to what government can force citizens to purchase,” continued McCollum, who lost to Rick Scott in the Republican gubernatorial primary last month. “Furthermore, the federal health-care act requires states to give up their free choice and sovereignty. The act commandeers state resources and manipulates state budgets to facilitate a massive expansion of the Medicaid entitlement program. It forces the states to take on a financial burden they do not want and cannot afford.
“The federal government seeks to leave the states with no real choice -- states must either implement the vastly expanded Medicaid program, costing Florida over $1 billion a year, or unrealistically opt out of Medicaid leaving our nation’s poor without health care coverage,” concluded McCollum. “Obamacare is public policy at its worst in violation of our U.S. Constitution. I am confident the court will agree with the argument the states posed in court today and will deny the federal government’s motion to dismiss.”
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The states mandates to provide unemployment, Medicaid and Food Stamps are run as well as the safety programs on the oil rigs. I was supposed to get Medicaid in Mississippi in January of 2009 and I still have not seen it. I did get a letter in May of 2010 that in January 2009 I was able to get Medicaid and “Any medical bills I had for that month that I had not paid they will take care of.” I was actually told by a state employee that as soon as the governor can get as much as he can out of the federal government on this oil crisis he will file a law suit against the president for the Medicaid bill. I did have a representative from the Mississippi Disability Determination say that maybe I was disabled but I am doing much better now. I have certifiable brain tissue damage, that is why she kept me from getting medical help and sent me to a psychologist for a medical examination. Even I could understand that I was working, I was not taking any medications, I was having no seizures, and I did not have a doctor; now, I have a regular doctor, I see a neurosurgeon, I am taking two prescriptions and I have reoccurring seizures how is this doing much better? When I first went to the free clinic to get back on the seizure medication like I was told, the representative from the state told me “you are not allowed to see a doctor without my permission.”
I tried to file a law suit in federal court against the state of Arkansas a little while back. Arkansas was among other things charging me taxes on money I earned in Mississippi. The federal judge told me like Arkansas did that maybe if I talk with Mississippi they will give me the tax money they rightfully charged me back. Then the judge dismisses the case because he said I was only asking for a monetary settlement. I did point out that the money I was asking for was the money that Arkansas had stolen from me over the course of a few years. I also explained to him that I also asked for the Corporate State of Arkansas to be restructured under corporate law and the control returned to the Qau Paw Indians who ran a much more fair and equitable form of government. He then pulled the you cannot suit them because they are sovereign.
WHY CAN THE FEDERAKL GOVERNMENT NOT CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY FROM THE STATES AND HAVE THIS SUIT DISMISSED?
