by Ashley Fuller
The Cherokee Tribune
March 26, 2010
A local representative's resolution that would prevent Georgia residents from being forced to buy health insurance will come back for another vote.
State Rep. Calvin Hill (R-Hickory Flat) has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any government from forcing an individual to participate in a health care system and allows that individual to pay directly for health care services.
The resolution received a majority earlier this week, but not the two-thirds majority necessary for an amendment. The House voted to reconsider the resolution Wednesday and it is scheduled to be heard again today.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama signed a health care overhaul that includes a requirement that most Americans carry health insurance.
"It is really not a question of health care. It is a question of the 10th amendment," Hill said, referring to the constitutional amendment that states powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved to the states or the people.
He said having the United States Congress require individual citizens to purchase health insurance is bypassing the state legislature.
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