West Virginia Republicans Want To Throw People In Jail For Helping Uninsured Get Obamacare

[KamaAina]

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/02/25/west-virginia-republicans-throw-people-jail-helping-uninsured-obamacare.html

West Virginia state House Republicans are proposing a new law that would make it a felony for anyone to enforce the health care law. In other words, any employee that would help a West Virginian get access to affordable healthcare would be committing a crime....

This is a strong contender for craziest proposed law of 2015. It will probably come as a surprise to Republicans, but they can’t declare a federal law invalid and make it crime to enforce the law. The proposed Republican bill is unconstitutional on many levels. Federal law supersedes state law. States can’t decide to make a federal law illegal, and throw people in jail who enforce it. None of this is the way that our system of government works.

A recent study found that West Virginia has benefitted the second most of any state in the country from the ACA. Naturally, the Republican response has been an attempt to criminalize the ACA.

The real criminals are Republicans in states like West Virginia, who are determined to kill their own citizens by denying them access to healthcare.

Boy, are they lucky that Rhythm is at the other end of the state in Morgantown. Between this and the anti-LGBT crap, they'd be in a world of hurt!

[Turbineguy]

1. Yes indeedy

there's nothing more dangerous than a healthy population.

To a republican.

If they get healthy, they may get smarter and next thing you know, you are off the government tit and on the street.