Obama’s Spending Freeze, Virginia Makes It Illegal to Require Insurance, and Lancet’s Vaccine Retraction
What does Obama’s spending freeze look like? (video)
Virginia’s Democratic-controlled state Senate bill makes it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance. Does that mean they can imprison violaters?
More than half of Americans look up health information on the Internet. But only 5 percent e-mail their doctors.
The Lancet retracts its study linking measles-mumps-rubella vaccines to autism. About 12 years too late.
That second item is interesting. Virginia makes it against the law to impose a health insurance mandate on Virginians. So let’s say Congress and Obama impose the mandate anyway. Shouldn’t the representatives and senators who voted to impose the mandate, and even Obama himself, be subject to some kind of sanction for violating the law? If not prison time, how about a fine?
Like the video. Very clever.
Even if purely advisory, the Virginia law pares away an unnecessary part of the Washington proposals. The individual mandate was just a way of disguising a tax.
It would be one thing for Congress to determine that it’s in the public interest for me to give the Girl Scouts $100. But please don’t do so by forcing me to by $500 worth of cookies. I can select my own groceries, thank you.
By, buy, whatever.
I got mumps last year and it was really very painful. I have to take some pain killers to ease the pain. ~-