{"id":2810,"date":"2010-04-02T22:13:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2010-04-02T22:33:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T02:33:48","slug":"governors-sign-health-care-freedom-acts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/04\/02\/governors-sign-health-care-freedom-acts\/","title":{"rendered":"Governors Sign Health Care Freedom Acts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>States are passing laws to protect citizens from federal health care mandates.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIRGINIA<\/strong><br \/>\nSpeaking about the Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act, Governor McDonnell noted, \u201cWe all agree that we must expand access to quality health care and reduce costs for all Virginians. However, that should not be accomplished through an unprecedented federal mandate on individuals that we believe violates the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/projectvirginia.com\/virginia-politics-2010\/governor-mcdonnell-signs-virginia-healthcare-freedom-act-legislation\/\">Governor McDonnell Signs Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act Legislation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>IDAHO<\/strong><br \/>\nThe bill makes public policy for the state that \u201cevery person within the state of Idaho is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today, Governor C.L. \u201cButch\u201d Otter welcomed legislative sponsors to his office at the Capitol today for the signing of House Bill 391 \u2013 the Idaho Health Freedom Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2010\/03\/idaho-governor-signs-health-care-freedom-act-into-law\/\">Idaho Governor Signs Health Care Freedom Act into Law<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UTAH<\/strong><br \/>\nGovernor Gary Herbert has made Utah the third state to pass the \u201cHealth Care Freedom Act\u201d into law. House Bill 67 (HB67) was introduced by Rep. Carl Wimmer and passed the House and Senate by votes of 53-20 and 22-7, respectively. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2010\/03\/utah-governor-signs-health-care-freedom-act\/\"> Utah Governor Signs Health Care Freedom Act<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>GOVERNOR LYNCH, WHERE ARE YOU?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please write and express your desire that NH&#8217;s AG be given the go-ahead to do what these three states have had the courage to do, to protect the citizens of NH!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.egov.nh.gov\/governor\/goveforms\/comments.asp\">NH Governor Lynch<\/a><br \/>\nOffice of the Governor<br \/>\nState House<br \/>\n107 North Main Street<br \/>\nConcord, NH 03301<br \/>\n(603)271-2121<br \/>\n(603)271-7640 (fax) <\/p>\n<p>NH Attorney General Michael A. Delaney<br \/>\nTelephone (603) 271-3658<br \/>\nFax (603) 271-2110<br \/>\nTDD Access: Relay NH 1-800-735-2964<br \/>\nConsumer Protection Hotline<br \/>\n1-888-468-4454<br \/>\nWeekdays 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>States are passing laws to protect citizens from federal health care mandates. VIRGINIA Speaking about the Virginia Healthcare Freedom Act, Governor McDonnell noted, \u201cWe all agree that we must expand access to quality health care and reduce costs for all Virginians. However, that should not be accomplished through an unprecedented federal mandate on individuals that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}