Other states have similar measures on the books but Missouri is the first to actually vote on it the measure passed by over 70 percent.
In large part this vote is being seen and reported as voters making their voices heard after having them be ignored during the forced passage of Obamacare.
NYT:
“My constituents told me they felt like their voices had been ignored and they wanted Washington to hear them,” Jane Cunningham, a state senator and Republican who had pressed for a vote, said Tuesday night. “It looks to me like they just picked up a megaphone.”
Stltoday:
With most of the vote counted, Proposition C was winning by a ratio of nearly 3 to 1. The measure, which seeks to exempt Missouri from the insurance mandate in the new health care law, includes a provision that would change how insurance companies that go out of business in Missouri liquidate their assets.
"I've never seen anything like it," Cunningham said at a campaign gathering at a private home in Town and Country. "Citizens wanted their voices to be heard."
Not only is over a dozen states challenging the constitutionality of the mandate in Obamacare, in courts across the country, but Missouri leads the pack in actually bringing their voters in to the decision by putting Prop C on the ballot.
The others to follow during the midterm elections are Arizona, Florida and Oklahoma. Each will have a similar measure on their ballot.
Thank you Missouri!!!
A quick reminder for those that do not already know.
Barack Obama vehemently denied the mandate was a "tax" when he was interviewed by George Stephanopoulos where stated:
OBAMA: No. That’s not true, George. The — for us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. What it’s saying is, is that we’re not going to have other people carrying your burdens for you anymore than the fact that right now everybody in America, just about, has to get auto insurance. Nobody considers that a tax increase.
Yet his attorneys, in court, are attempting to justify it as a "“a valid exercise” of Congress’s power to impose taxes" (Via NYT)
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