REBELLION: Bill Introduced in Missouri to Nullify Obamacare

The country is on its way to shutting down Obamacare for good. There is a “legal and effective” way to gut the Affordable Care Act: States introduce and pass legislation that bans the usage of state resources, like money or personnel, for the implementation of the destructivehealthcare law. Since the federal government lacks both the resources and the wherewithal to go into every single state to enforce the ACA, it is effectively null and void.

Missouri joins South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio and Oklahoma in throwing their hat in the ring. Ten additional states are expected to move forwardthis year as well. 

Since relying on Congress and the Senate to repeal Obamacare has thus far provenunfruitful, our two remaining options are: (1) Let Obamacare continue its fast-track to utter collapse, or (2) Encourage more states to follow and implement this model so that the ACA simply crumbles away.  

From Freedom Outpost:

Next month, the Missouri Senate will consider a bill which would effectively cripple the implementation of the Affordable Care Act within the state.

Following the lead of South Carolina, where lawmakers are fast-trackingHouse Bill 3101 in 2014, and Georgia, where HB707 was recently introduced by Rep. Jason Spencer, Missouri State Senator John T. Lamping (R-24) pre-filed Senate Bill 546 (SB546) to update the Health Care Freedom Act passed by Missouri voters in 2010. It passed that year with more than 70% support.

SB546 would ban Missouri from taking any action that would “compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer, or health care provider to participate in anyhealth care system.” That means the state would be banned by law from operating a health care exchange for the federal government.

The bill also proposes suspending the licenses of insurers who accept federal subsidies which result in the “imposition of penalties contrary to the public policy” set forth in the legislation. Since it is unlikely that any insurer would then accept a subsidy, not a single employer in the state could be hit with the employer-mandate penalties those subsidies trigger.

Former Judge Andrew Napolitano, a champion of liberty, has said that, “if enough states do this, it will gut Obamacare because the federal government doesn’t have the resources [...] to go into each of the states if they start refusing.” Mike Maharrey, Tenth Amendment Center’s communications director, said that his “sources tell us to expect at least ten states moving in this direction in the coming months. But that will only come true if people start calling their state representatives and senators right now.” He continued, “State lawmakers need to know they should introduce bills to ban the state from participating in any Obamacare programs.”

The Tenth Amendment Center’s constitutional strategy for nullifying the Affordable Care Act in each state can be accomplished in four steps:

1. Ban state enforcement, participation, and material support
2. Reject Medicaid expansion
3. Protect residents from mandates
4. Challenge the IRS’s illegal Obamacare taxes

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