States Resisting ObamaCare

I don't know if you remember what I posted on July 29th, but I wrote a bill to be introduced in the next Legislative session. It's called the Alabama Health Care Freedom Act of 2010. It's an amendment to the Alabama Constitution that would protect people (including medical care providers) from being forced into purchasing health insurance or joining a health care plan, and would preclude their being fined if they refused to so cooperate.

Note that it doesn't impact voluntary participation in any plan, it just says people can't be FORCED to participate.
http://politicsalabama.blogspot.com/2009/07/alabama-health-care-freedom-act-of-2010.html

I love being ahead of the trend. This kind of thing is apparently spreading, with lawmakers in more than a dozen states pursuing something similar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/29/us/29states.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

In more than a dozen statehouses across the country, a small but growing group of lawmakers is pressing for state constitutional amendments that would outlaw a crucial element of the health care plans under discussion in Washington: the requirement that nearly everyone buy insurance or pay a penalty.

Approval of the measures, the lawmakers suggest, would set off a legal battle over the rights of states versus the reach of federal power — an issue that is, for some, central to the current health care debate but also one that has tentacles stretching into many other matters, including education and drug policy.

I have not yet found a sponsor for this bill... so come on guys, do me proud. Let's find a Legislator willing to introduce the bill next year!