South Carolina set to vote to eliminate the Affordable Care Act

[maxrandb]

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It's from the Daily "Cryer", so I won't post the link, but here we go again. Didn't we have this fight about 150 years ago? I know this will go nowhere, but these "effing" wingnuts are "committed"...or they should be.
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(DAILY CALLER) A bill set for fast-track passage in the South Carolina Senate in January aims to eliminate Obamacare in the state. The law could become a model for other states fed up with the federal health-care law.

House Bill 3101, titled the “South Carolina Freedom of Health Care Protection Act,” passed the state House of Representatives last April by a 65-34 vote. The bill now heads to the GOP-controlled Senate with special-order priority, setting up the likelihood that South Carolina will become the first state to exempt citizens and businesses from all participation in the Affordable Care Act.

State Sen. Tom Davis, the bill’s sponsor who recently wrapped up study committee hearings for H3101 in Columbia, Charleston and other cities, says that the proposed legislation renders the Affordable Care Act void or inoperable through a handful of provisions.

[sharp_stick]

1. The South still refuses to

realize they lost the war. Nullification is a wet dream for the scumbags that run those States.

[Samantha]

2. I don't understand how they think they can get away with this

A state law cannot supersede a Federal law. States that don't set up exchanges have citizens who go to the Federal website for insurance. So does South Carolina plan to bar a citizen from doing that, and does it plan to allow health insurance companies peddle policies that do not comport with the Federal requirements?

Sam

[NightWatcher]

3. threaten to take away their federal funds if they pass this

Then let the average Carolinian know how much of a hit they'd take if they pass it.

[littlewolf]

4. the way I understand this is

1. they are refusing to set up exchanges with in the state. just like all the other red states.

2. I read that someone named Davis (sound familiar ) that they are using
the SCOTUS case Printz V United States. where the court ruled
that states are sovereign entities and not political subdivisions of the federal gov't. and they can not be forced to use state money or personnel
to enforce federal law.

and I will be willing to bet if you threaten to take away fed bennies
they will refuse to send the federal gov't tax money.

[maxrandb]

6. God, I would love to do that

if it weren't for the "sane" people that would be hurt in SC. Since they get back about 1.60 for every 1.00 of taxes they pay to the Fed, we could possibly eliminate the deficit by simply cutting SC off of the "gubmint" teat.

Then we could pull all of those federal troops, Army, Marine, Air Force and Navy from the state, along with all Federal Employees. Next time there's a fucking storm that wipes them out, let them fucking handle it.

This is nothing but ignorant mean-spirited bullshit. It's the same as this idiotic wet-dream they have of having a State Constitutional Convention to amend the Constitution.

It's completely moronic, but since the right seems to have a monopoly on morons, the "dozens of people across the country that agree with them" will get all into a froth about it and start breaking out their muskets and gray uniforms.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. Natural consequences. The best kind of education.

South Carolina has volunteered to pay all penalties arising from not complying with the ACA. I see no problem with this.

http://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess120_2013-2014/bills/3101.htm

[maxrandb]

7. From your link

I think it's fine that they are willing to pay the penalties, but the first line of the bill reads

"TITLE 38 SO AS TO RENDER NULL AND VOID CERTAIN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAWS ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES"

Am I missing something, or did the Supreme Court not uphold the ACA?

[johnnyreb]

8. Dumb phucks.

Most of us remember the last time they told us we were fightin' fer freedom.