South Carolina bill makes 'Obamacare' implementation a crime

[pmaitra]

South Carolina House passes bill making 'Obamacare' implementation a crime

By: Jessica Chasmar (Washington Times)

Nikki Haley

The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be "null and void," and criminalizes its implementation.

The state's Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to "prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article."

The measure permits the state Attorney General, with reasonable cause, "to restrain by temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or permanent injunction" any person who is believed to be causing harm to any person or business with the implementation of Obamacare.

Earlier this year in her state of the state address, Gov. Nikki Haley said that South Carolina does not want and cannot afford the president's plan, "not now, not ever."

Source: South Carolina House Passes Bill Making Implementation Of Obamacare A Crime - Fox Nation

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The South Carolina state House passed a bill Wednesday that declares President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to be "null and void," and criminalizes its implementation.

The state's Freedom of Health Care Protection Act intends to "prohibit certain individuals from enforcing or attempting to enforce such unconstitutional laws; and to establish criminal penalties and civil liability for violating this article."

The measure permits the state Attorney General, with reasonable cause, "to restrain by temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or permanent injunction" any person who is believed to be causing harm to any person or business with the implementation of Obamacare.

Earlier this year in her state of the state address, Gov. Nikki Haley said that South Carolina does not want and cannot afford the president's plan, "not now, not ever."

"To that end, we will not pursue the type of government-run health exchanges being forced on us by Washington," she said. "Despite the rose-colored rhetoric coming out of D.C., these exchanges are nothing more than a way to make the state do the federal government's bidding in spending massive amounts of taxpayer dollars on insurance subsidies that we can't afford."

The nullification bill moved on to the state Senate Thursday and referred to the Committee on Finance. As of Oct. 2, the bill is still residing in the Senate.


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[pmaitra]

Well done Gov. Nikki Haley. Finally, someone is standing up to the bullies in WDC. This is one governor who keeps the interests of her state ahead of everything else and by doing so has the backing of the people of her state, from whence she derives her strength.

The measure permits the state Attorney General, with reasonable cause, "to restrain by temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or permanent injunction" any person who is believed to be causing harm to any person or business with the implementation of Obamacare.

This way Nikki Haley is going to lure in lot of investment into her state. Excellent move.

 

[pmaitra]

A slightly different view: Obamacare Foes Using Shutdown Echo South's Nullifiers - Bloomberg

Nullification Movement

Mihm said today's fight has a parallel in the nullification movement of the 1830s when John C. Calhoun, who had resigned the vice presidency to run for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, devised a strategy to oppose a tariff that he said hit the South unfairly. If the state legislature passed a law that refuted the federal one, the state could ignore it based on what he called a "concurrent majority."

President Andrew Jackson eventually interceded and thwarted the nullification movement. Had it gone forward, Mihm said, it may have led to the breakup of the Union before the Civil War.

Now, he said, those who want to stop Obamacare "are trying to find another way to nullify that poses a much graver threat, but not to the law," Mihm said, referring to a possible failure to raise the nation's debt ceiling.

 

[W.G.Ewald]

 

[Armand2REP]

State law doesn't trump federal so a protest vote is all it amounts to.