The American Legislative Exchange Council has a primer in How Your State Can Block Single-Payer and Protect Patients’ Rights.
The idea is going nationwide. From the New York Times, In Some States, a Push to Ban Mandate on Insurance
ST. PAUL — 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…
More at the link.
Tags: Constitution, Healthcare Reform, State Sovereignty, States rights, Tenth Amendment