On Aug. 3, Missourians will vote on Proposition C, legislation meant to block federal health care measures.
The proposition, dubbed the Missouri Healthcare Freedom Amendment, would amend Missouri law to deny the federal government the authority to penalize citizens for refusing to buy private health insurance and would allow citizens the right to offer or accept direct payment for lawful health care services, according to the Secretary of State's Web site.
The act is in response to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed into law in March by President Obama.
Secretary of State Robin Carnahan announced in a July 27 news release that a predicted 24 percent of Missouri's registered voters will turn up at the polls for the Aug. 3 primary election. The 24 percent estimate equates to more than 1 million votes, the release said.
Reader Comments
Posted: Monday, August 02, 2010
Article comment by:
Keynes Economist
Annette...Right now, if I am sick, I can get health care whether I have paid for it or not. If I don't pay for it...then either the doctors take the hit, or the insurance companies take the hit and pass it on to those who do pay. THAT'S the status quo. What's the real solution to the status quo? Change the law where doctors are required to give aid regardless of payment. Forget all that, this is Springfield. What would Jesus do...? Give to Ceasar...
Posted: Sunday, August 01, 2010
Article comment by:
Annette Way
THIS is FORCED health care.that we will be buying for ourselves and family NOT FREE health care. The point of Prop C is for those of us who do not want to be forced into buying insurance to not be penalized (fined) for it.
It is one thing to offer health care it is another to force it on the citizens of the USA.
Posted: Friday, July 30, 2010
Article comment by:
Mark Twain
I have traveled the serpentine length of the Mississippi River on many occasions. And from my boyhood home in Hannibal to the docks at Cairo, I can report that the vast majority of Missouri's citizens are not fond of this new fangled drink they call “Kool-Aid.” Why the Federal Government is now in charge of selling it, I cannot fathom. Perhaps it is because fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.
Posted: Thursday, July 29, 2010
Article comment by:
Robert Beckett
No matter what they call it, this is a bad idea. Senior citizens, those with chronic ailments or handicaps whether caused by illness or accidents or genetic problems (such as auto-immune diseases) all need the care they can afford because of the long-overdue federal action. If we really believe that Americans have an inalienable Right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, then we must agree that making health care available is putting our claims into action. To vote against health care for all is to take some of the idealism out of the words Jefferson put into the Declaration of Independence.
