Missourians Overwhelmingly Vote For Proposition C Opting Missouri Out Of Obamacare Individual Mandate

KWMU St. Louis Public Radio reports that the "first major test of national health care overhaul legislation was voted on by Missourians on Tuesday. The core of Proposition C is an opt-out provision that bars the government from forcing Missourians to buy individual health insurance, as part of the administration's larger overhaul of health care. The measure's passage was good news for Republicans who oppose the President's agenda on health care. State Senator Jane Cunningham was the measure's lead sponsor. She says Prop C sends a clear message to Washington about the individual mandate."

"It is unprecedented in the United States of America for a government to say, you will buy a product, with your own money against your will,'" says Cunningham. "That has never before happened in America. And that question needs to be addressed to the U.S. Supreme Court."

The AP reports that "about 71 percent of Missouri voters backed a ballot measure, Proposition C, that would prohibit the government from requiring people to have health insurance or from penalizing them for not having it. The Missouri law conflicts with a federal requirement that most people have health insurance or face penalties starting in 2014."

Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Kentucky Resolution of 1798 "that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government." He would no doubt approve of this vote by the people of Missouri. Tweet