Somewhere Between Worried and Panicked in Virginia
A blog of the New York Times looks again at state-based moves to protect people from an individual mandate to buy insurance, either from state or national governments. It mentions that the latest state to take up legal language, Virginia, did so in the form of a statue, not a constitutional amendment. That should mean it becomes law much sooner–and could pave the way for a legal challenge, should Congress enact such a mandate.
Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia, comments on the movement, and specifically the vote of five Democrats in the Virginia Senate. He reads that as an attempt by the senators to buy political coverage, since “Democrats are somewhere between worried and panicked.”
We should do health care reform. But if what the House and Senate have produced constitutes reform, then reform ought to be dead, and we should start over.
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