Colorado Part Of Health Care Reform Law Challenge At Supreme Court

March 23, 2012 9:38 PM

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DENVER (CBS4)- President Barack Obama’s health care reform law goes before the U.S. Supreme Court next week. Colorado is one of 26 states challenging the law.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers filed a lawsuit claiming the law is unconstitutional because it requires everyone to buy health insurance. That’s known as the individual mandate.

Two attorneys in Colorado who filed briefs in the case commented on the case to CBS4 before it goes in front of the highest court in the nation.

“Congress can enact lots of laws about regulation of interstate commerce but Congress was never given by the people the even greater power to coerce involuntary commerce,” said Independence Institute spokesman Dave Kopel.

“Congress has mandated economic transactions before. Congress regularly changes your tax burden based on whether you buy something and to strike down this law, the court would make up substantial new law,” said Scott Moss with the University of Colorado Law School.

The justices could strike down the individual mandate or the entire law.

Colorado Part Of Health Care Reform Law Challenge At Supreme Court

RicardoAWiggins

In fact, under new health care reform your health insurance company will no longer be allowed to cancel your policy if you get sick, we should be doing this already! search online “Penny Health” it is a good place to find insurance if you have illness like me.
Ruth Nielsen

The individual mandate has been badly misrepresented. People who only listen to Fox “news” and right-wing radio, and who don’t bother to READ the FACTS, are believing lies.
How many Coloradans have really had a chance to weigh in on this?
Did anyone ask US?
I can’t imagine why anyone would try and roll back this law, unless they only care about health insurance company profits.
That’s really what this is about. Insurance company profits.
Most of us are happy with the new protections against their abuse.
If you think “Obama-care” is bad, then you don’t know anythng about what it does to help you.
Look up and read the” Health care Bill of Rights”, if you’re confused about it. The new protections are improving my family’s lives. We have fought a losing battle with greedy health insurance companies for years.
If I had all the money we paid them in premiums, for all their denials, fines, and huge co-pays, I could be paying for my own medical care! At least now we can get some real coverage without going broke!.
Guess what.. I LIKE “Obama-care.” I don’t want my health care rights repealed!
I am ashamed that Colorado is one of the states trying to force a repeal of a good thing. Let me keep my Obama-care. I need it.
minhaz

A lot. More today than a year ago.Because of Obamacare, no company in America oerffs stand alone children’s health insurance.Why? Obamacare dictates that it is guaranteed issue, without rate ups, regardless of health. Therefore, there is no reason to purchase it until there is a claim needing to be paid.That’s not health insurance. That’s a confiscatory tax on health insurance companies. Fortunately, they aren’t slaves yet, so they exercised the F U clause in the contract with the purple bellies from Washington and just refused to do business where they are guaranteed to lose money.How do you fix the problem of un- and under-insured? By making health insurance affordable.How do you make it affordable? By removing ALL government mandates, loser pays tort reform, encouraging competition between providers (enforce existing anti-trust laws), eliminate the AMA monopoly on billing codes, and eliminate the connection between employment and health insurance.Do these things and we’ll see health insurance cost less than auto insurance. More people will be covered, more people will be healthy.
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