Health Care Fight Begins Again

There are now fourteen states that have filed lawsuits to block the health care reform bill. These states include Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota Texas, Utah, Washington, and Virginia.

“The Constitution nowhere authorizes the United States to mandate, either directly or under threat of penalty, that all citizens and legal residents have qualifying health care coverage.”
~from the lawsuit filed in Pensacola, FL

While health care for all is a great concept it fails when it comes to paying for it.

“It’s a question for most of us in the states of the costs to our people and to the rights and the freedoms of the individual citizens in upholding our constitutional duties as attorneys general.”
~Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum

The cost of this health care reform will be passed onto the states that are already burdened by strapped budgets. In other words, increased taxes will be necessary in order to fund and sustain this new health care system. Once again hard-working families will be footing this bill in more ways than one. Businesses that are mandated to provide health care to employees will most certainly pass the cost on to customers or reduce the number of employees to make up for lost revenue. The bottom line, if everyone is not paying for their health care then the money has to come from somewhere else. That somewhere else is the working American.

Let’s not forget about all those faithful union members with their “cadillac” health care plans. They will be paying a tax on this benefit. You might say a double whammy between increased state tax and now a health care tax.

Americans that have neither government or employer provided health insurance will be required to purchase it on their own or be subjected to tax penalties.

So the health care fight begins again and there does not appear to be an amicable end in sight.