Missouri Suit Represents Actual People

Attorney Generals  from several states have sued on constitutional grounds to overturn the Obamacare healthcare bill passed by the Democrat Congress in March; the suit recently filed in Missouri against the same measure differs dramatically.

Instead of challenging the law solely on the behest of the state, the Missouri suit represents actual people who are going to suffer as a result of the healthcare bill.  There are human faces on this suit, the faces of people who are going to be hurt badly if Obamacare stays on the books.

“As our state’s statutorily-empowered advocate for senior citizens, I began this suit in my official capacity,” Missouri’s Republican Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said days after he filed the suit at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, MO.

In explaining why his suit differs from those of the attorneys general from sister states, Kinder pointed out that “theirs is a ‘facial challenge’—that is, God bless them, challenging Obamacare on the face of the law, challenging its very legality.”

“But ours is a unique case of individuals as parties bringing a suit. It is known as ‘as applied’ and that means that if this law is applied, these individuals are going to be suffer. ”

Julie Keathley, a widow from Dexter, Mo., with an adopted son who is autistic is one of the people who would be adversely affected.  Should Obamacare take effect, Keathley says its regulations will end the special-needs program her son Mason is on and force her to go on Medicaid—the much-criticized program initially designed to favor indigents that is a major cause for much of the deficits that states are now wallowing in.

Another plaintiff in the Missouri suit is 70+ Dale Morris, who is battling congestive heart failure and survived colon cancer and a quadruple bypass. Washington University in St. Louis, Kinder it was explained, “Has among the finest doctors and facilities who can handle her complex problems.” But because of Obamacare, he said, Morris would be unable to get the operation since Medicare Advantage (the program under which she is covered) is being eliminated.

The third plaintiff he cited is 21-year-old Samantha Hill of Western Missouri, a recent college graduate who is trying to get medical catastrophic insurance. Kinder pointed out that Hill “doesn’t smoke, doesn’t drink, doesn’t use drugs, and eats right. Yet, thanks to the ‘one size fits all’ mandate in Obamacare, she will have to follow a cessation program in order to qualify for the catastrophic coverage—a program she can’t afford and has no need for.”

Attorney General Kinder fully anticipates that others will join in the suit nationwide and that other plaintiffs will find other dangers in Obamacare. In Kinder’s words, “as you peel back layers of this onion, you find so many unintended consequences and all of them are bad.”

Election 2010 is important.  United we can defeat Obamacare and the other harmful legislation that Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats have forced on America.

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