Florida House committees pass measures aimed at blocking federal health care bill
by Michael C. Bender | March 22nd, 2010The Republican-led Florida House Health Care Regulation Policy Committee approved an amendment for the November ballot that would prohibit Floridians from being forced to buy health insurance.
The bill (HJR 37) was approved on a strictly partisan vote, 10-3. It has three more committee stops.
On a similarly partisan 7-5 vote earlier today, the House Health & Family Services Policy Council approved nonbinding resolution (HR 1561) urging Republican Attorney General Bill McCollum to sue the federal government and challenge constitutionality of the individual mandate within the health care reform bill that passed the U.S. House last night.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 4:31 pm
Ok, so now according to federal legislation insurance companies cannot deny health coverage due to a pre-existing medical condition but is there any provision limiting what the insurance companies can charge the unhealthy for their health insurance plan or is this just another nice feely touchy provision that is absolutely useless because the previously uninsurable will not be able to afford the premiums? ff Lake Worth