BOISE, Id – Idaho’s two U-S Senators today filed a brief with the U-S Supreme Court to support a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Mike Crapo “Frankly the purpose of this is to seek to bring some common sense to the government’s approach to our health care.”
Crapo and Jim Risch joined 41 other Senators to challenge the act. Crapo says Congress passed the bill without constitutional authority when it included an individual mandate to buy health insurance. He says it forces people to purchase a specific product.
Mike Crapo “If the government is allowed to do that then we have gone a huge step beyond where any of us here ever thought the federal government could go.”
Crapo says if the individual mandate is backed by the Supreme Court, Congress could require people to purchase virtually anything, including health-related products like vitamin supplements.
The challenge to the health care act comes from 26 states, including Idaho. The Supreme Court will take up the challenge over three days, beginning March 26.
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